[linux-lvm] extending raw partition and logical partition

[Gerry Reno]

Nevermind.
pvresize /dev/sda2  did the trick.  (I'm not working with LVM tools 
everyday so you forget some of these things :-\ )


Gerry Reno wrote:
> I have 3 disk physical partitions:
> /dev/sda1
> /dev/sda2
> /dev/sda3
>
> VolGroup02 uses physical volume /dev/sda2.
> I needed some more space on my logical partition 
> /dev/VolGroup02/LogVol00 (only LV in Group) so I went ahead and 
> deleted /dev/sda3 which left a bunch of free space.  So then I went 
> into fdisk and removed /dev/sda2 and recreated it with the same 
> starting cyl and made the new end cyl the same as the old /dev/sda3 so 
> I should have all the space in both the old partitions.  Rebooted, 
> checked fdisk -l and sure enough it had all the space.  But now when I 
> do a vgdisplay I still don't see any FREE PE.  It shows exactly the 
> same as before I expanded the physical partition.  So how can I expand 
> the LV if there is no FREE PE?
>
>
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