RE: Expanding an LVM

Hi,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: urgrue [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: 19 August 2008 11:27
> 
> Correct. You dont expand the PV, you make a new partition with fdisk 
in
> the new space and then create a pv on it, add it to the vg with
> vgextend, and the lvextend and then ext2online/resize2fs/whatever to
> expand the fs.

> > Right now I am considering deleting the RAID container completely 
and
> > re-creating and restoring rather than waste any more time but before
> > I do I'd like to hear it if sounds like the procedure is bound to
> > fail.
> >
> > At the moment I think the best I can hope for is that the volume 
will
> > be fine but the extra disk-space will never be seen?
> >
> 
> if you dont see the new space in fdisk, you might have to reboot, or 
do
> echo "- - -" > /sys/class/scsi_host/hostXXX/scan.

Do you mean the new space on the expanded RAID logical drive or a 
completely new RAID container?

Thanx,
Dp.