On Fri, Oct 21, 2005 at 09:14:44PM +0900, Craig Hagerman wrote: > Hi all, > > I want to make sure I understand the correct way to add more disc > space under LVM. If you have LVM set up on one single HD, and then > want to extend that to cover a second HD what is the correct way to > proceed? > > >From reading the HOWTO I think this is how it is done. Am I missing > anything essential here? Run pvcreate on your new drive before vgextend. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > Add physical volumes to a volume group: > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > Use 'vgextend' to add an initialized physical volume to an existing > volume group. > # vgextend my_volume_group /dev/hdc1 > ^^^^^^^^^ new physical volume > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > Extend logical volume: > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > # lvextend -L12G /dev/myvg/homevol > > will extend /dev/myvg/homevol to 12 Gigabytes. > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Increase size of file system to match the logical volume (assuming ext2 / 3): > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > # umount /dev/myvg/homevol/dev/myvg/homevol > # resize2fs /dev/myvg/homevol > # mount /dev/myvg/homevol /home > > > Is this correct? Is this all you have to do? > > Craig > > _______________________________________________ > 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/ -- Regards, Heinz -- The LVM Guy -- *** Software bugs are stupid. Nevertheless it needs not so stupid people to solve them *** =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Heinz Mauelshagen Red Hat GmbH Consulting Development Engineer Am Sonnenhang 11 Cluster and Storage Development 56242 Marienrachdorf Germany Mauelshagen@RedHat.com +49 2626 141200 FAX 924446 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- _______________________________________________ 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/
