On Sun, 2008-10-26 at 21:49 -0800, Aldo Foot wrote: > On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 4:33 AM, Gilboa Davara <gilboad@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Sat, 2008-10-25 at 20:37 +0200, David Hláčik wrote: > >> Hello guys, > >> > >> i have removed sda1 partition with Windows , now i have free space on > >> disk > >> > >> There is > >> > >> sda1 - now free space > >> sda2 - /boot > >> sda3 - LVM > >> > >> Now i want to resize sda3 to take free space over sda1. Is this > >> possible? as there is sda2 in way before ... You have two options - resize or simply add sda1 it to the VG. > >> Is the best solution to just create sda1 with LVM and then resize my > >> volume group to sda1 also? There really isn't much of a difference. LVM isn't contiguous at the onset. The premise of LVM is that it doesn't have to be. > > AFAIK you cannot re-size the LVM (can you?) but you can add a second > > (sda1) physical volume (partition in this case) to an existing LVM. > > > > E.g. > > > > $ vgextend VolGroupName /dev/sda1 You can resize all 3 layers. pvresize, vgextend, lvresize. > You're correct LVs cannot be resized, but Volume Groups do by adding > or removing partitions as you describe. The lvextend command must be used > in addition to vgextend. Isn't lvextend a resize? But yes, just by adding more space to a VG doesn't change the size of the LVs. Just as adding a new harddrive doesn't change the partition layout. > At any rate, the OP had the right approach, which is to use sda1 to extend > his logical volume. Use sda1 to extend the group, then extend the LVs. -- Peter Larsen <plarsen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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