[linux-lvm] Resizing underlying LVM partition after cloning to bigger disk

[Scott Arthur]

I did consider that as an easier option.

Based on what is said here: http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/multpartitions.html if I don't have striped logical volumes and there's only one physical drive, can I expect any performance issues?

On 4/03/2011, at 11:13 PM, Lyn Rees <Rees at cardiff.ac.uk> wrote:

> Why don't you just make a new partition and add it to the VG, then expand the LV. Isn't that the point of LVM? 
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> From:        "Stuart D. Gathman" <stuart at bmsi.com> 
> To:        LVM general discussion and development <linux-lvm at redhat.com> 
> Date:        03/03/2011 20:27 
> Subject:        Re: [linux-lvm] Resizing underlying LVM partition after cloning to bigger disk 
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> On Thu, 3 Mar 2011, Scott Arthur wrote:
> 
> > Partition Table: msdos
> > 
> > Number  Start   End     Size    Type      File system  Flags
> >  1      32.3kB  296MB   296MB   primary   ext4         boot
> >  2      296MB   1000GB  1000GB  extended
> >  5      296MB   1000GB  1000GB  logical                lvm
> > 
> > I'm obviously wanting to expand the LVM partition to fill the remaining 1TB
> > of space.
> > 
> > Am I able to simply use parted to resize the partition before doing a
> > pvresize etc?
> > 
> > Or is it risky to resize the underlying LVM partition?
> 
> You are getting to a size where msdos partition tables are risky.
> Don't they crap out at 2TB?
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