Am Mittwoch 23 November 2005 00:02 schrieb Heinz Mauelshagen: > On Tue, Nov 22, 2005 at 11:26:13PM +0100, Matthias Meyer wrote: > > Am Dienstag 22 November 2005 10:58 schrieb Heinz Mauelshagen: > > > Matthias, > > > > > > you don't need to deactivate your VG in order to grow it. > > > > > > That's the whole point behind LVM: be able to adjust your changing > > > storage requirements online. > > > > > > Do "vgchange -ay", "vgextend LVM2 /dev/hdc1" and you'll have your > > > VG online with extended capacity to grow your LV and FS in another > > > step. > > > > > > Regards, > > > Heinz -- The LVM Guy -- > > > > Thanks for your hint. > > But: > > vdr:~# vgchange -ay LVM2 > > vgchange -- volume group "LVM2" does not exist > > Hrm, run vgscan and 'vgchange -ay' afterwards. > You haven't overwritten your PV, have you ? > vdr:~# vgscan vgscan -- reading all physical volumes (this may take a while...) vgscan -- found active volume group "LVM" vgscan -- ERROR "vg_read_with_pv_and_lv(): current PV" can't get data of volume group "LVM2" from physical volume(s) vgscan -- "/etc/lvmtab" and "/etc/lvmtab.d" successfully created vgscan -- WARNING: This program does not do a VGDA backup of your volume groups You have new mail in /var/mail/root vdr:~# vgchange -ay vgchange -- volume group "LVM" already active Hmm, I think I had overwrite my PV with vdr:~# vgchange -an LVM2 vgchange -- volume group "LVM2" successfully deactivated vdr:~# pvcreate -vff /dev/hdc1 as descriped in detail in my mail at November, 21. 23:22 -- Don't Panic _______________________________________________ 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/
