F7: how to add second hard disk using system-config-lvm

Ed Greshko Ed.Greshko at greshko.com
Wed Jun 20 08:33:36 UTC 2007


Ed Greshko wrote:
> Yu Yi wrote:
>> hi,
>> Problem by adding second hard disk using system-config-lvm:
>> Master disk:250G
>> Slave disk: 40G (newly installed)
>> The system can detect both correctly, they are
>> Master disk = /dev/sda (Partition 2)
>> slave disk = /dev/sdb (Partition 2)
>>
>> But the newly inserted disk (40G) shows umounted, how can I extend the
>> logical
>> volume group to include the slave disk?
> 
> When you bring up system-config-lvm, /dev/sdb2 should show up in the
> "Uninitialized Entities".  Click on "Initialize".  After that is done
> /dev/sdb2 should move to "Unallocated Entities".  Then you'll see a choice
> to "Add to existing Volume Group".

Oh, I forgot to mention that you will then need to edit the properties of
the lvm you want the space added to as the above procedure will result in
making the space available as available extents.

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