linux-lvm-bounces@redhat.com wrote on 11/16/2004 09:58:39 AM: > On Mon, Nov 15, 2004 at 12:47:28PM -0600, Jetkins@austinlogistics.com wrote: > > any way to expand a PV, and therein lies my problem. It seems that without > > a pvexpand or pvresize command, I have no way of utilizing the additional > > space. > > LVM1 or LVM2? lvm-1.0.8-5, as supplied with RH ES3/AS > Using LVM2 tools you can pvexpand (offline) by backing up the metadata, > editing the PV size in it (pe_count), then restoring it. > new pe_count = > floor((new_disk_size_in_512_byte_sectors - pe_start) / extent_size) By inference, there's no way with LVM1? > > 2) Would I have been better off creating a partition table and > > pvcreate'ing on /dev/sdb1instead of pvcreate'ing the entire /dev/sdb disk > > initially, given that I could now have created a new partition on the extra > > space and pvreate'd a new PV alongside the old? > > That's the supported way. Bummer that the HOWTO at tldp.org makes no mention of the full-volume method being unsupported, or even of a preference for one method over the other. :( Thanks. I guess I'll start pulling these drives out of the array; my users are screaming for the extra space. Jon Etkins IT Administration & Support Austin Logistics, Inc _______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list linux-lvm@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/
