Re: [linux-lvm] Physical volume size changed

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On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 04:27:22AM -0600, Andreas Dilger wrote:
> On May 22, 2002  12:11 +0200, Jens Hoffrichter wrote:
> > Now we have extended the logical volume on the IBM ServeRaid by using
> > 3 36 GB disks, so the logical volume on the raid controller now has
> > 203.4 GB. 
> 
> I assume when you say "logical volume" you actually mean "physical
> volume"?
> 
> > I have issued a SCSI reset on the bus hoping that the LVM notices on the
> > fly that the physical volume size has changed, but it doesn't recognize
> > it.
> 
> No, you need to use "pvresize", which is part of very recent LVM tools.
> I'm not sure if it needs kernel support or not.

No, it doesn't because the physical volume to be resized needs to be inactive.
Thought that would be fair enough because it is a rare change anyway.

> 
> Cheers, Andreas
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