> On Tue, 2005-06-07 at 19:35 +0100, Derek Scollon wrote: >> I'm running FC3 and currently have one 300GB SATA drive which looks like this. >> >> Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on >> /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00 >> 286285288 239994144 31748708 89% / >> /dev/sda1 101086 33733 62134 36% /boot >> none 517796 0 517796 0% /dev/shm >> >> I've added a second drive today and am following the instructions here... >> >> http://www.hants.lug.org.uk/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?action=browse&id=LinuxHints/LogicalVolumeManagement&oldid=LogicalVolumeManagement >> (section titled "Adding another disk") >> >> ...to add this drive to the volume group. I've successfully got >> as far as step 5 and hit a problem, since trying to unmount that >> volume group tells me that / is in use. Trying step 6 warns me that >> running e2fsck on a mounted filesystem can cause severe damage, at >> which point I chicken out. Is it safe to skip to step 7 and run >> resize2fs without unmounting the filesystem first or should I be >> doing something different? > This may or may not work, but it's safe and it'll just refuse to do it > if it can't: > # ext2online /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 > You don't need to unmount the partition; in fact it won't work if you > do. > This assumes you're using an ext2 or ext3 filesystem. > Paul. > -- > Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx> This worked perfectly, thanks. Churned away on the hard drives for 5 minutes or so and ended up with one volume 44% full, as expected. -- Derek
