On Thursday 12 April 2007, aragonx@xxxxxxxxxx wrote: >> On Thursday 12 April 2007, Ed Greshko wrote: >>>Gene, >>> >>>> So I started a dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdd which cloned that 160GB drive >>>> to >>>> a 200GB drive. >>> >>>AFAIK, when you dd in that manner, you are cloning as you say. In that >>> way, >>>you are cloning everything. By everything I mean you are cloning the >>> disk >>>label, partition table, inodes and all bad bits. In effect, you've made >>> a >>>200GB drive into a 160GB drive. >> >> Rant mode on here Ed. >> >> Not permanently. I was able to use fdisk and add a 4th partition to >> account >> for the rest of the drive after I was done. That's why I asked the >> question >> about adding it to the LVM setup for real use, but no one has offered any >> how >> to on that, not yet anyway. > >I did not catch the beginning of this thread so I don't know if this is >the information you want. I'm guessing that you have this new partition >that you want added to your existing volume group. > >First you can go to: http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/ > >Here are the steps as I see them: > >pvcreate /dev/hdd4 (?) >vgextend my_volume_group /dev/hdd4 I've probably done the first two steps, but as I'm using it as /, it will take a reboot I take it before I can see it all? >umount /dev/my_volume_group/my_logical_volume >resize2fs /dev/my_volume_group/my_logical_volume Wasn't this done when I had the gui merge it? >mount /dev/my_volume_group/my_logical_volume /my_mount_point > >Hope that helps. > > > >-- >This message has been scanned for viruses and >dangerous content by MailScanner, and is >believed to be clean. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Don't compare floating point numbers solely for equality.
