Seann Clark wrote: > > 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. Have a look at the thread called "lvm resizing and shifting" (23/8/2008). The issue is similar and my proposal worked in that case. Your problem is that you have a 3TB disk (sdb) containing just a 1.4TB partition (sdb1, which is your pv). I obviously have to recommend to be very careful when doing these operations. You have a backup of your data, right? I'm also a bit concerned about the fact that you will break the 2TB per partition barrier; I don't know if that limit has been totally removed nowadays. Alternatively, you can add a sdb2 and then pvcreate, vgextend, lvextend. > Oct 9 11:58:39 haruhi kernel: sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 20971519 512-byte > hardware sectors (10737 MB) > Oct 9 11:58:39 haruhi kernel: sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off > Oct 9 11:58:39 haruhi kernel: sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: enabled, > read cache: disabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA > Oct 9 11:58:39 haruhi kernel: sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 20971519 512-byte > hardware sectors (10737 MB) > Oct 9 11:58:39 haruhi kernel: sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off > Oct 9 11:58:39 haruhi kernel: sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: enabled, > read cache: disabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA > Oct 9 11:58:39 haruhi kernel: sda: sda1 sda2 > Oct 9 11:58:39 haruhi kernel: sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Attached SCSI disk > Oct 9 11:58:39 haruhi kernel: sd 0:0:0:1: [sdb] Very big device. Trying > to use READ CAPACITY(16). > Oct 9 11:58:39 haruhi kernel: sd 0:0:0:1: [sdb] 6814820353 512-byte > hardware sectors (3489188 MB) > Oct 9 11:58:39 haruhi kernel: sd 0:0:0:1: [sdb] Write Protect is off > Oct 9 11:58:39 haruhi kernel: sd 0:0:0:1: [sdb] Write cache: enabled, > read cache: disabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA > Oct 9 11:58:39 haruhi kernel: sd 0:0:0:1: [sdb] Very big device. Trying > to use READ CAPACITY(16). > Oct 9 11:58:39 haruhi kernel: sd 0:0:0:1: [sdb] 6814820353 512-byte > hardware sectors (3489188 MB) > Oct 9 11:58:39 haruhi kernel: sd 0:0:0:1: [sdb] Write Protect is off > Oct 9 11:58:39 haruhi kernel: sd 0:0:0:1: [sdb] Write cache: enabled, > read cache: disabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA The important information is just the line you have not included (sdb: sdb1, sdb2?). What about /proc/partitions? Best regards. -- Roberto Ragusa mail at robertoragusa.it -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
