-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Thomas Marmetschke wrote: > Hi, > > is it possible to extend a phyiscal volume? > > I have a strange problem, i resized the /dev/sda4 partion (8e Linux LVM) > from 130GB to 220GB. so far so good. > Hi Thomas, Depending on how recent your version of LVM2 is, you can use pvresize to do this: # pvresize /dev/hda2 This will autodetect the new size of the PV and grow it accordingly. One thing I noticed was that after fdisking the partition, a reboot was needed to get kernel to see the new size - partprobe does not seem to be sufficient. That might have been a quirk though - check the partition sizes in /proc/partitions to be sure. Thanks, Bryn. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFFOJYf6YSQoMYUY94RAuw3AJ9WIBaHGASEcJiIentE+nTJ89nRzwCgh6PD Aw822Rs8DA7VsQGTaIms4z0= =80Uw -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ 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/
