On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 5:05 PM, John Drescher <drescherjm@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 4:49 PM, Koen Vermeer <koen@vermeer.tv> wrote: >> On 03/03/2011 06:25 AM, Scott Arthur wrote: >>> 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. >> >> I'm just a regular LVM user and maybe I'm misunderstanding you, but why >> not simply add partition #2 as a physical volume? I thought that was one >> of the advantages of LVM: not having to worry about that kind of thing. >> > LVM pvresize is safe. I have done this many times at work. Even with > > 10TB physical volumes. There is one potential problem if your pv has 2 > metadata areas however it will inform you and in this case it will > refuse to resize instead of causing breakage. > BTW, I did not mention but the fix for this is in the works. John _______________________________________________ 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/
