[linux-lvm] How to grow a PV?

[Heinz J . Mauelshagen]

On Thu, Jun 12, 2003 at 02:45:49PM +0200, Thomas Kleffel wrote:
> Hi again...
> 
> ...I'm sorry for having to ask again...

No problem.

> 
> Heinz J . Mauelshagen wrote:
> 
> > LVM2 supports PV resizing. 
> 
> I just installed 1.95.15 and pvresize tells me "Command not implemented 
> yet."
> "pvresize --version" gives me the following:
> 
>  > LVM version:       1.95.15 (2003-01-10)
>  > Library version:      0.96.08-ioctrl (2003-03-27)
>  > Driver version:      1.0.10
> 
> Did I fetch an old version? Or do I need to get some bleeding-edge-stuff 
> from the CVS?
> Or am I simply too stupid? :)

No, you need to use pvcreate+vgcfgrestore with LVM2.
Make a copy of your LVM metadata before you try it ;)
(dd if=/dev/md0 of=md0.vgda bs)1k count=4k)

> 
> Thanks for your help,
> 
> Thomas Kleffel
> 
> 
> 
> 
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