Growing a LVM filesystem

[Mike Burger]

> I am trying to figure out how to grow the filesystem on a logical volume
> I am using ext3,the redhat documentation says:
>
>    To grow a file system on a logical volume, perform the following steps:
>
>     1.  Make a new physical volume.
>     2.  Extend the volume group that contains the logical volume with
> the file system you are growing to include the new physical volume.
>     3.  Extend the logical volume to include the new physical volume.
>     4.  Grow the file system.
>
>
>
> My question is this how do i grow the filesystem? Parted apparently cant
> handle it (I tried it by specifing parted /dev/VG_01/LV_01 )and it told
> me filesystem has an incompatible feature enabled. I dont know of
> another tool that is a command line tool that is available to use.

There should be a GUI tool "redhat-config-lvm" or "system-config-lvm".

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