Re: how to expand a container

On Wed, 2007-05-23 at 09:39 -0700, Ross Boylan wrote:
> I have a disk which includes partitions sda12 and sda7 (among others) .
> I have an EVMS LVM2 container built on sda12 and sda7 is exported as a 
> compatibility volume.  I want to expand the container to include sda7, losing 
> the current contents of sda7.
> 
> sda7 is not mounted, though I mounted it to have a look at it.
> In evmsgui I
> deactivated sda7
> deleted /dev/evms/sda7
> expanded the container to include sda7.
> 
> When I hit save it asks if its OK to overwrite the last 1024 bytes of sda7; I 
> said yes.  Then it gives me the error "Device or resource busy."  Since I see 
> the schedule actions include re-activating all the volumes exported by the 
> container, I suspect the problem is that it wants to take the container off 
> line and it can't.  I'm running almost entirely on volumes exported from the 
> container, so shutting it down isn't really an option.
> 
> First, can anyone confirm this interpretation, or provide a correct one?
> 
> Second, how can I do what I want to do?

I got this to work:
deleted volume sda7
expanded container to include sda7

I don't know if skipping the deactivation was key, or something else.  I
think I also have a slightly different set of evms libs now.

Ross

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