[linux-lvm] LV size increase

Heinz J . Mauelshagen mauelshagen at sistina.com
Fri Aug 16 05:15:02 UTC 2002


On Thu, Aug 15, 2002 at 09:05:59PM +0200, Josef Chlapowski wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I just got more drives and want to add them to my volume but the max lv size of that volume is 1TB and the current size is like 900GB already so I can not add the new ones because of the size limit.

Even though LVs are limited to 1TB in your configuration, you can still add
new PVs to that VG making it larger than 1TB.
In that case you can have multiple LVs up to 1TB in size.

> Is it possible to change the max LV size without loosing any data?

No :-(

That's why you need to plan for your maximum LV size
requirements at VG creation.

> 
> Thanks i.A
> 
> - Josef

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