On Thursday 09 October 2008 01:17:31 pm Seann Clark wrote: > All, > > I am looking for a little help on finding out the best way to do > this. I had a 4 disk 1.4TB RAID 5 array, and extended that to an 8 disk > 3.18TB array, on a 64 bit system.The Raid card handled the migration of > the disks well, and everything on that side is up and running as it > should. Problem is I don't know how to extend LVM to a larger size, > without doing the whole adding of physical drives, and so forth, and the > pv display doesn't show more than the 1.4TB that I started with. Most > documentation details software RAID procedures that don't really work > with this. I figure I am doing something(lots of things) wrong. > > Commands I have used: > > Thu Oct 09-13:10:36-root@haruhi:~> pvs -o +dev_size > PV VG Fmt Attr PSize PFree DevSize > /dev/sda2 VolGroup00 lvm2 a- 9.78G 64.00M 9.81G > /dev/sdb1 VolGroup00 lvm2 a- 1.35T 576.00M 1.35T > > This error is after I resized the pv back to its original size: > Thu Oct 09-13:11:32-root@haruhi:~> lvresize -d -L 3.18T > /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 > Rounding up size to full physical extent 3.18 TB > Extending logical volume LogVol00 to 3.18 TB > Insufficient free space: 59572 extents needed, but only 20 available first you need to fix up the physical disk either resize the partition /dev/sdb1 to use all of the disk. or just create a new partition using the new disk. probably safer to just make a new partition in the free space then make it a physical volume pvcreate /dev/sdb2 then extend the Volume Group vgextend VolGroup00 /dev/sdb2 then you will be able to resize the Logical Volume lvextend -L 3.18T LogVol00 it looks like you have everyting in one VolumeGroup and a single logical volume? Dennis -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
