Adding new disks, include in volume group

[Gary Stainburn]

On Monday 13 June 2005 4:33 pm, Paul Howarth wrote:
> Scot L. Harris wrote:
> > On Mon, 2005-06-13 at 11:23, Gary Stainburn wrote:
> >>Hi folks.
> >>
> >>I've got a FC3 system with default disk format as shown below.  Is
> >> it possible to add 2 more drives to the system so that the root
> >> filesystem grows to use them?
[snip]
> You can use ext2online to resize a mounted ext2/ext3 filesystem, so a
> rescue CD might not be needed (ext2online can't always resize a
> partition but it'll tell you if it can't).
>
> The procedure basically involves using pvcreate to create LVM
> physical volumes on the new disks, vgextend to add those physical
> volumes to VolGroup00 and then lvextend to make logical volume
> /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 bigger. You can then resize the root
> filesystem using either ext2online (if it works), or resize2fs from
> rescue mode if ext2online refuses to cooperate.
>
> See the man pages for the various commands to see how they work. See
> also the Linux LVM HOWTO:
> http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/
>

Hi Paul.

I'll look at the howto, but a quick question.  I asume that ext2online 
and resize2fs will still work with the fs being ext3. Is this right?
Gary


> Paul.

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