[linux-lvm] How do I use free PE?

Rod Rook rod.rook at gmail.com
Fri Oct 23 15:59:18 UTC 2009


Thank you for your reply. I was thinking of using Gnome parted, but I wanted
to check to see if it can be used with LVM2 partitions.

On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 10:38 AM, brem belguebli
<brem.belguebli at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi,
>
> your underlying disk /dev/sdb2 cannot be part of more than one volume
> group, it'll have to be under VolGroup00.
>
> When you say I don't want to add it to VolGroup00, you may be
> confusing some concepts.
>
> You certainly don't want to add free space under / (which is a
> filesystem) on top of a Logical Volume (LogVol0) which itself is built
> on top of your VolGroup00, isn't it ?
>
> If so, you can create a new Logical volume (let's say
> logvolgeneralstorage, man lvcreate) on top of VolGroup00 which will be
> mounted on /otherstroragethanslash.
>
> Everything is in the man pages (lvcreate, lvs, lvdisplay, mke[234]fs,
> fstab)
>
> 2009/10/23 Rod Rook <rod.rook at gmail.com>:
> > I've installed Fedora 10 on a 250GB SATA hard drive.
> > I want to use the unused portion (free PE= 4378, about 140GB), but I
> don't
> > know how I go about doing it.
> > I don't want to add it to VolGroup00, but I want it made accessible as a
> > general storage space.
> >
> >>
> >> [root at localhost Documents]# pvdisplay /dev/sdb2
> >
> >   --- Physical volume ---
> >   PV Name               /dev/sdb2
> >   VG Name               VolGroup00
> >   PV Size               232.69 GB / not usable 4.58 MB
> >   Allocatable           yes
> >   PE Size (KByte)       32768
> >   Total PE              7446
> >   Free PE               4376
> >   Allocated PE          3070
> >>
> >>   PV UUID               DBf14Y-SLFe-cwZy-m1O7-3Jw9-Xhdf-3u42iX
> >>
> >
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