John Koshi wrote: > I assume the next steps will be (from a rescue CD): > > 1) Use fdisk to format the unused 25 Gb space in the > extended partition, to a new type 8E partition. > 2) Use pvcreate to create a new physical vol there. > 3) Use vgextend to extend VolGroup00 to include the > new physical volume. > 4) Use lvextend to extend LogVol00 by the XX Gb. > 5) Do a file system check of LogVol00. > > Does this look right? Am I missing any steps? after you grow LogVol00 you also have to expand the ext2/ext2 filesystem inside (step 4a) resize2fs -p /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00 This actually does the real work. resize2fs recommends to perform an fsck before. If you are in doubt, do it, else you may skip this using "resize2fs -f -p". You don't have to supply a size, resize2fs will find the current size of the extended volume auomatically Will you perform this while booting from a rescue CD? If this is your root filesystem you have to, anyway. Else you possibly have to reboot, after changing the partition table, because it may be locked by the system while it is in use. Tip: you may rename your VG and your LVs to get expressive names like "/dev/mapper/Sonota-Root". Imo this is less error prone than working with technical names like "LogVol42". > Disk /dev/hda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes > 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders > Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System > /dev/hda1 * 1 5201 41777001 7 HPFS/NTFS > /dev/hda2 9704 9729 208845 88 Linux plaintext > /dev/hda3 5202 5214 104422+ 83 Linux > /dev/hda4 5215 9703 36057892+ f W95 Ext'd (LBA) > /dev/hda5 8425 9703 10273536 8e Linux LVM > Partition table entries are not in disk order So you end up with an extended partition containing your LVM. Even if this works, it is an ugly solution. This Win95 extended partition hack is something like a poor-mans LVM with partition magic as its management tool. It would be much better, to REPLACE the extended partition by LVM. Unfortunately I don't see any easy migration path without an external disk. If you have any spare disk, to temporary hold the 8.2Gb root volume, I may point out an other solution. Dieter. _______________________________________________ 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/
