On Thu, Jun 08, 2006 at 10:53:12AM +0200, Alen Salamun wrote: > Hello All! > > I have read all the archives, HOWTO etc. but I don't seem to find the > definitive guide to do it correctly. > > My diskspace in Linux is on SAN. The last partition (/dev/sda3) is LVM, > ext3 and it represents my /home. Now I expanded the SAN volume and I > would like to add this additional space to this last LVM partition. > > I already see larger disk space with fdisk. AFAIK I have now two > options. Either I create new partition (for example /dev/sda4) and > pvcreate it and add it to Logical Volume or I can resize existing > /dev/sda3 since it is the last partition and I can resize it to new end > sector. > > I would prefer resizing existing partition. So I should make backup, > delete existing partition /dev/sda3. make new partition with new end > sector and same start sector and do pvresize, lvresize on it right? > > Is there any other way to do it? It is after all quite something to > delete existing live partiton and hope it still work after resize :) man pvresize > > Thank you! > > _______________________________________________ > 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 Storage Development 56242 Marienrachdorf Germany Mauelshagen@RedHat.com PHONE +49 171 7803392 FAX +49 2626 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/
