On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 11:36 AM, John R Pierce <pierce@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi John,
It seems like the tech @ the data centre has only created a 10GB partition, and since I only have SSH access to the server, I've decided to send the server back to have it properly repartitioned.
where's the rest of this disk? unpartitioned? create another LVMRudi Ahlers wrote:
> Hi all
>
> I have a remote server (i.e SSH access only) which was incorrectly
> partitioned and I urgently need to get it up and running. It's got a
> 500GB HDD, but the PV is only 10GB big, so I can't add more LV's to
> to. P.S. This is on LVM, btw.
>
> [root@nd11176 ~]# fdisk -l /dev/sda
>
> Disk /dev/sda: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
>
> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
> /dev/sda1 * 1 33 265041 83 Linux
> /dev/sda2 34 1338 10482412+ 8e Linux LVM
> /dev/sda3 1339 1860 4192965 82 Linux swap /
> Solaris
>
> [root@nd11176 ~]# pvscan
> PV /dev/sda2 VG VolGroup00 lvm2 [9.97 GB / 0 free]
> Total: 1 [9.97 GB] / in use: 1 [9.97 GB] / in no VG: 0 [0 ]
>
> [root@nd11176 ~]# vgscan
> Reading all physical volumes. This may take a while...
> Found volume group "VolGroup00" using metadata type lvm2
>
> [root@nd11176 ~]# lvscan
> ACTIVE '/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00' [9.97 GB] inherit
>
>
>
> So, my question is, if I extend the Physical Volume, what else do I
> need todo in order to add more Logical Volume's?
partition as sda4, and add it to the VolGroup00, then grow LogVol00, and
use resize2fs to grow the file system to fill the new LogVol00 size.
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Hi John,
It seems like the tech @ the data centre has only created a 10GB partition, and since I only have SSH access to the server, I've decided to send the server back to have it properly repartitioned.
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Kind Regards
Rudi Ahlers
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