Did you partition the disk, or did you put LVM on the raw disk unpartitioned? If the disk is partitioned, run fdisk/cfdisk/disk druid to add that partition on the end (I've never done this, so take it with a grain of salt). I don't believe that the partition table has the complete size of the disk, I believe it just has the sizes of the current partitions. So it should be safe (the key work being: should). Run pvcreate on the newly created partition. Now follow the HOWTO on adding another pv to a vg. I believe all you do is run vgextend then lvextend or lvcreate. If you didn't set it up using partitions, and it is a raw block device you have issues. I've got no idea how to help. Sorry... Report back if what works :-) Thanks, Kirby Ralf Eisinger wrote: > Sorry, I think there is/was something confusing. We want to have the > following scenario: > > - we had an hardware raid5 with three disks (so we get the size from two > of them) > - from the view of the kernel there is one big SCSI disk > - on that disk I install lvm (for snapshots) and ext3 > - ... > - we are working (heavily ;-) on that disks > - ... > - Because we are running out of disk space, I plug in a new disk > and add them to the existing raid5. So it will have now four disks. > This adding is done by the hardware. > - Now the disk size of the "one big disk" is changed to the new > "netto" size of the raid5. > > Is it possible to handle that with lvm and when the answer is "yes", in > which way? One point was a command named "pvresize" but I didn't find it > in my distribution (SuSE 8.0) and I find nothing about that in the HOWTO. > > _______________________________________________ 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
