[linux-lvm] How to grow a PV?

[Heinz J . Mauelshagen]

On Thu, Jun 12, 2003 at 10:38:49AM +0200, Thomas Kleffel wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I am running LVM1 ontop of  software-RAID (md). I just added a disk to 
> my raid, so my /dev/md0 is about 120G bigger now.

Sounds like you added a new disk to the end of a linear MD ?

You could have pvcreate'd it directly to add it to a Volume Group
(not adding it to the MD at all).

> 
> Now my question is: How can I tell LVM to include these additional space 
> into the PV that's already there (on /dev/md0)?

LVM2 supports PV resizing.

> 
> I  know it has to be possible because I did it several times (my raid 
> has 9 disks now - it hat 4 disks, some time ago) - I just can't rememer :(((
> Could someone please give me a hint?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> Thomas Kleffel
> 
> 
> 
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