On Apr 23, 2002 07:26 -0700, Donaldson, Leslie wrote: > I am trying to set my personal computer using Raid-5 with LVM. > My problem is the following... I created a device /dev/md4 with a 32 GB > drive and then after bouncing data and drives around I grew the drive > to 48 GB drive. > > what happened: > 32 GB raid 5 created (/dev/md3) > created lvm on 32 /dev/md3 > extended /dev/md3 to 48 GB (raidresize) > > Question: > How to I get lvm to use the new 16GB of drive space > without reinstalling LVM on the part. (I have data I would like to keep, > and it's the boot disk.) In the most recent versions of the LVM user tools there is a "pvresize" command which does what you want. Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Dilger http://www-mddsp.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/adilger/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2resize/ _______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list linux-lvm@sistina.com http://lists.sistina.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm read the LVM HOW-TO at http://www.sistina.com/lvm/Pages/howto.html