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From: "Stuart D. Gathman" <stuart@bmsi.com>
To: LVM general discussion and development <linux-lvm@redhat.com>
Date: 03/03/2011 20:27
Subject: Re: Resizing underlying LVM partition after cloning to bigger disk
Sent by: linux-lvm-bounces@redhat.com
On Thu, 3 Mar 2011, Scott Arthur wrote:
> Partition Table: msdos
>
> Number Start End Size Type File system Flags
> 1 32.3kB 296MB 296MB primary ext4 boot
> 2 296MB 1000GB 1000GB extended
> 5 296MB 1000GB 1000GB logical lvm
>
> I'm obviously wanting to expand the LVM partition to fill the remaining 1TB
> of space.
>
> Am I able to simply use parted to resize the partition before doing a
> pvresize etc?
>
> Or is it risky to resize the underlying LVM partition?
You are getting to a size where msdos partition tables are risky.
Don't they crap out at 2TB?
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