I extended logical volume, but filesystem size has not increased

[Parameshwara Bhat]

On Mon, 06 Feb 2006 12:14:12 +0530, <fedora-list-request at redhat.com> wrote:

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> Date: Mon, 06 Feb 2006 03:48:40 +0100
> From: Alexander Dalloz <ad+lists at uni-x.org>
> Subject: Re: I extended logical volume, but filesystem size has not
> increased
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> Am Mo, den 06.02.2006 schrieb Parameshwara Bhat um 3:26:
>
>> I am running FC4. My '/' is '/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00' mapped to  
>> physical
>> partition '/dev/hda2'. I felt it's getting too filled up and added  
>> another
>> partition from the second drive 'dev/hdb5' to Logical Volume 00. I
>> initialised and added the partition to 'VolGroup00' using
>> 'system-config-lvm' gui. As it doesn't allow extension of logical  
>> volume,
>> I used 'lvextend' command to do it. Everything worked well except that
>> still the size of my '/' is reported as 286 MB (vacant) whereas I have
>> added a
>> partition of size 8 GB to it and I expected it to be around 8.2 GB
>
>> Parameshwara Bhat
> You missed to resize the filesystem.

Oops! I started on this tutorial,but jumped to do the exercise before  
finishing.

Well, It was easydoing with ext2online. But I expected a size of about  
8.2GB whereas what I got was about 7.6GB. What's this overhead for?

Thanks,

Parameshwara Bhat
> http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/extendlv.html
> Alexander



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