[linux-lvm] How do I pvresize?
Glen Harris
glen at gbrmpa.gov.au
Tue Mar 23 21:18:18 UTC 2004
No, I used the raw device sda. I didn't bother partitioning it, as I
knew I could expand the raid, and grow the PV just like I did back
with LVM-1.
glen.
Chris Laycock wrote:
>
> Glen,
>
> If you do a pvscan do you get 'PV "/dev/sda1" etc' or 'PV "/dev/sda"
> etc'
> If you get the former could you not create /dev/sda2 with the extra
> 250GB and add that to the LV as a separate PV
> I'm assuming that you can have different partitions on the same array
> (actual disk) defined as separate PVs
> I may be completely off track here, please feel free to correct.....
>
> Regards,
>
> Chris.
>
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> I have already expanded the RAID slice by 250Gb, and now have a
> /dev/sda which is 250Gb larger than it was before.
>
> I now cannot remove that disk without either rebuilding the RAID
> on the hot spare(back to square one) or destroying the RAID.
>
> Please, can someone help me?
>
> David Mohr wrote:
> > I'm pretty new to LVM, so take my comment with a grain of salt.
> >
> > Why do you need to resize the PV at all? If you need more space, create
> > a new PV and add it to the LV, that should do the trick.
> >
> > ~David
> >
> > On Sun, 2004-03-21 at 15:01, Glen Harris wrote:
> >
> >>We started running out of space on our backup server, so I bought a
> >>couple of new 250Gb disks, added them to the 16 bay FC RAID array
> >>and expanded the RAID, followed by the slice.
> >>
> >>I then went to expand the PV, and got a "Command not implemented yet."
> >>message.
> >>
> >>This is a problem. This is a *BIG* problem.
> >>
> >>What are my options, short of destroying the volume and starting
> >>from scratch?
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