You also needs to run these two commands Unmount the partitions. e2fsck -f /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol06 resize2fs /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol06 cheers... -Jai -----Original Message----- From: redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Florez, Nestor Sent: Thursday, January 07, 2010 4:10 PM To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list Subject: LVM: Not working I am using LVM on mon eof my RHEL5 and I left some space available to increase the size of my storage volume. I am using the following commands to increase the size of one Logical Volume but after I mount the volume the size has not changed. The 'lvextend' command says that the size of the volume is 13.75GB. What I am missing? # ls -lt /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol06 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 31 Jan 7 15:57 /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol06 -> /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol06 # df -k /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol06 9903432 153832 9238420 2% /usr/local # umount /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol06 # lvextend -L+3G /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol06 Extending logical volume LogVol06 to 13.75 GB Logical volume LogVol06 successfully resized # mount /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol06 /usr/local # df -k /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol06 9903432 153832 9238420 2% /usr/local Thanks, Néstor J -- 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