Adding a partition to existing LVM

[Kevin J. Cummings]

Steven Stern wrote:
> I had installed Fedora on a dual-boot system using default partition,
> where Windows had the first partitions on both drives, C and D. I've
> removed the D partition to give that to Fedora.  Although it looks like
> the logical volume is 74GB larger, df is showing the same 143GB as before.

So, you added the space to the logical volume.  Did you then resize the
filesystem inside that logical volume?

> How do I get Fedora LVM to use all of the space?
> 
> Following instructions from various Googled sources, I created a
> partition /dev/sdb1(formerly D) and added it to VolGroup00
> 
> # pvdisplay
>   --- Physical volume ---
>   PV Name               /dev/sda3
>   VG Name               VolGroup00
>   PV Size               74.32 GB / not usable 8.80 MB
>   Allocatable           yes (but full)
>   PE Size (KByte)       32768
>   Total PE              2378
>   Free PE               0
>   Allocated PE          2378
>   PV UUID               ZQ0z6V-iME2-7hNv-8oFY-CPz1-I3p9-qr0UIC
> 
>   --- Physical volume ---
>   PV Name               /dev/sdb2
>   VG Name               VolGroup00
>   PV Size               74.31 GB / not usable 25.11 MB
>   Allocatable           yes (but full)
>   PE Size (KByte)       32768
>   Total PE              2377
>   Free PE               0
>   Allocated PE          2377
>   PV UUID               stTPob-H2GB-5TiA-br1Z-tfp1-nveK-qr83m1
> 
>   --- Physical volume ---  ##### THIS IS THE NEW ONE ######
>   PV Name               /dev/sdb1
>   VG Name               VolGroup00
>   PV Size               74.74 GB / not usable 23.00 MB
>   Allocatable           yes
>   PE Size (KByte)       32768
>   Total PE              2391
>   Free PE               105
>   Allocated PE          2286
>   PV UUID               LZTmnI-3TY7-2Ch8-h08E-VQA0-XVzN-jAtEYD
> 
> 
> It looks like the LV increased in size by the extra 74GB
> 
> # lvdisplay
>   --- Logical volume ---
>   LV Name                /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00
>   VG Name                VolGroup00
>   LV UUID                OIyFZ7-cfpt-BCiN-x51g-KWki-D3df-XTm3Ll
>   LV Write Access        read/write
>   LV Status              available
>   # open                 1
>   LV Size                218.09 GB
>   Current LE             6979
>   Segments               4
>   Allocation             inherit
>   Read ahead sectors     0
>   Block device           253:0
> 
>   --- Logical volume ---
>   LV Name                /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01
>   VG Name                VolGroup00
>   LV UUID                pxWlHu-qCUk-9K3E-RK6i-DFJb-OyDN-2nEmmh
>   LV Write Access        read/write
>   LV Status              available
>   # open                 1
>   LV Size                1.94 GB
>   Current LE             62
>   Segments               1
>   Allocation             inherit
>   Read ahead sectors     0
>   Block device           253:1
> 
> 
> # more /etc/fstab
> /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 /           ext3    defaults        1 1
> LABEL=/boot  /boot                   ext3    defaults        1 2
> tmpfs        /dev/shm                tmpfs   defaults        0 0
> devpts       /dev/pts                devpts  gid=5,mode=620  0 0
> sysfs        /sys                    sysfs   defaults        0 0
> proc         /proc                   proc    defaults        0 0
> /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01 swap        swap    defaults        0 0
> 
> 
> 

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Kevin J. Cummings
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