thx Sean, I had just stumbled upon that as well. another alternative seems to be pvdislplay /dev/hde |grep "PV Size" and then use that size in GB using lvextend -L +XXG /path/to/lv Terry Rigby On June 22, 2005 06:08 pm, Sean Boyd wrote: > On Wed, 2005-06-22 at 17:16 -0700, Terry Rigby wrote: > > I am trying to add a full hard drive to my LV by following the directions > > at TLDP.org. It says there to use lvextend -L +XXG where XX is the size > > in GB you want to add to the LV. Is there a more simple way to just add > > a whole hard drive ie: /dev/hde > > > > It seems like a pain to have to manually figure out the size of the hard > > drive then add it using lvextend -L +200GB for a 200GB hard drive > > especially since we all know its not actually 200GB. > > You could increase the LV by using the remaining free physical extents > (PE). > > To check how many PE's are available after extending the VG run > vgdisplay and check "Free PE / Size". The first value will give you the > total number of PE's available. > > Then extend your LV using the -l switch to specify PE's rather than > having to determine a size using the -L switch. > > For example "lvextend -l +25 /dev/volGroup00/myLVM" will extend myLVM by > 25 PE's. > > Of course you then need to extend to file system to be able to use this > extra space :) > > --Sean > > > _______________________________________________ > 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/ _______________________________________________ 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/
