You can use the raw device without creating a partition, just mark the new disk as a PV, add it to the VG, then extend the LV, finally grow the filesystem to accomodate the new space. Just curious why it's growing so much? Oracle should be storing most of its files in a DATA/FRA ASM partition? On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 10:20 PM, Sujeet Kumar <sujeet646@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Dear > > Add new hdd and create new partition than add pv and extend vg, extend lv > > On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 11:18 PM, Azahary Omar <azaharyo@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > For information my environment as below :- > > > > IBM system p ( p520 ) > > Linux 2.6.18-194.el5 #1 SMP Tue Mar 16 22:03:12 EDT 2010 ppc64 ppc64 > ppc64 > > GNU/Linux > > > > I'm using IBM SAN DS8K storage installed by IBM Storage Engineer. I do > > mostly DBA task/job. > > > > Currently my existing allocation almost full, only 1.5GB left at the > mount > > point /u01. > > > > I need help on how to increase the size from 350GB to 500GB. Appreciate > > some guideline/steps > > on how to perform this activity. > > > > > > # df -h > > Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on > > /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00 > > 220G 132G 77G 64% / > > /dev/sda2 99M 18M 77M 19% /boot > > tmpfs 32G 0 32G 0% /dev/shm > > /dev/mapper/mpath4p1 345G 326G 1.5G 100% /u01 > > > > mpath4 (3600507630affc39e0000000000000005) dm-2 IBM,2107900 > > > > [size=350G][features=1 queue_if_no_path][hwhandler=0][rw] > > \_ round-robin 0 [prio=4][active] > > \_ 2:0:0:0 sdc 8:32 [active][ready] > > \_ 2:0:1:0 sdf 8:80 [active][ready] > > \_ 3:0:0:0 sdi 8:128 [active][ready] > > \_ 3:0:1:0 sdl 8:176 [active][ready] > > > > > > Thank you very much and regards > > Azahary > > -- > > redhat-list mailing list > > unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe > > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > > > > > > -- > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list