lvm question

[Gene Heskett]

On Thursday 12 April 2007, aragonx at dcsnow.com wrote:
>> On Thursday 12 April 2007, Ed Greshko wrote:
>>>Gene,
>>>
>>>> So I started a dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdd which cloned that 160GB drive
>>>> to
>>>> a 200GB drive.
>>>
>>>AFAIK, when you dd in that manner, you are cloning as you say.  In that
>>> way,
>>>you are cloning everything.  By everything I mean you are cloning the
>>> disk
>>>label, partition table, inodes and all bad bits.  In effect, you've made
>>> a
>>>200GB drive into a 160GB drive.
>>
>> Rant mode on here Ed.
>>
>> Not permanently.  I was able to use fdisk and add a 4th partition to
>> account
>> for the rest of the drive after I was done.  That's why I asked the
>> question
>> about adding it to the LVM setup for real use, but no one has offered any
>> how
>> to on that, not yet anyway.
>
>I did not catch the beginning of this thread so I don't know if this is
>the information you want.  I'm guessing that you have this new partition
>that you want added to your existing volume group.
>
>First you can go to: http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/
>
>Here are the steps as I see them:
>
>pvcreate /dev/hdd4 (?)
>vgextend my_volume_group /dev/hdd4

I've probably done the first two steps, but as I'm using it as /, it will take 
a reboot I take it before I can see it all?

>umount /dev/my_volume_group/my_logical_volume
>resize2fs /dev/my_volume_group/my_logical_volume

Wasn't this done when I had the gui merge it?

>mount /dev/my_volume_group/my_logical_volume /my_mount_point
>
>Hope that helps.
>
>
>
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