On 12/21/2015 11:15 AM, Sander Kuusemets wrote: > So what happened, is that after another administrator had extended the > disk from VMWare, I tried to extend it from the OS side. ... > Now's when the problems happened. After writing the partition table I > got the usual "Busy" error. But I needed to do this without downtime. > So, what did I try to get the kernel acknowledge the partition size > change: ... > * partprobe -s Well, partprobe is the standard advice for this situation, but I don't think it actively does anything with the -s flag. That could have been the problem, but I'm not certain. > And while dmesg reported that it recognized the partition change, LVM > did still not see it. You didn't include "pvresize" in that list, so I presume you didn't do it. That's the command that will inform LVM of the change.