[linux-lvm] Right way to resize LVM Volume on SAN?
Alen Salamun
alien at alienworld.org
Thu Jun 8 14:06:10 UTC 2006
Thank you. I read that already. And since it only says:
"Expand the PV on /dev/sda1 AFTER enlarging the partition with fdisk"
my question is related on part of enlarging partition with fdisk. Do I
have to do it in described way (delete, create new with extended last
sector) to preserve data or is there any other "less destructive
look-a-like" way?
Best regards
Heinz Mauelshagen wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 08, 2006 at 10:53:12AM +0200, Alen Salamun wrote:
>> Hello All!
>>
>> I have read all the archives, HOWTO etc. but I don't seem to find the
>> definitive guide to do it correctly.
>>
>> My diskspace in Linux is on SAN. The last partition (/dev/sda3) is LVM,
>> ext3 and it represents my /home. Now I expanded the SAN volume and I
>> would like to add this additional space to this last LVM partition.
>>
>> I already see larger disk space with fdisk. AFAIK I have now two
>> options. Either I create new partition (for example /dev/sda4) and
>> pvcreate it and add it to Logical Volume or I can resize existing
>> /dev/sda3 since it is the last partition and I can resize it to new end
>> sector.
>>
>> I would prefer resizing existing partition. So I should make backup,
>> delete existing partition /dev/sda3. make new partition with new end
>> sector and same start sector and do pvresize, lvresize on it right?
>>
>> Is there any other way to do it? It is after all quite something to
>> delete existing live partiton and hope it still work after resize :)
>
> man pvresize
>
>> Thank you!
>>
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