gentoo 1.4 vanilla-sources 2.4.22 lvm-user 1.0.7-r1 I am trying to extend my /dev/vg/lv01 (EXT3) by 3Gig's so i did a # lvextend -L +3G /dev/vg/lv01 then # e2fsadm -L +3G /dev/vg/lv01 *making chkfs reporting errors ... fixing them* ... and nothing happens ... then i did # sync # mount /dev/vg/lv01 /mnt/somewhere # df says it's still 80G NOT 83G! so i try again *fearing the worst* # e2fsadm -L +3G /dev/vg/lv01 *making chkfs ... resizing* again and get 6G more to my /dev/vg/lv01 files are ok... *the best that could happen* 8)) the question is: how come it isn't extendet by 3G instead of 6G ? what am i doing wrong? just to know for the next time ... thanks in advance for any advice _______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list linux-lvm@sistina.com http://lists.sistina.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/