LVM Question
Robert Locke
lists at ralii.com
Wed Sep 24 14:13:42 UTC 2008
On Wed, 2008-09-24 at 19:20 +0530, Kapil Hari Paranjape wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On Wed, 24 Sep 2008, Gene Poole wrote:
> > I performed an extend (lvextend) on a file system that was running out
> > of space. All of the return codes and messages showed a good
> > completion. However, when I did a display on the file system (df -m
> > /work) it didn't show that the file system had been extended.
>
> lvextend extends the underlying block device. It does not resize the
> filesystem. You will need to resize the file-system. Assuming that you
> are using ext2/3, this would be the following sequence of commands:
>
> umount /work
> e2fsck -f /dev/DataVG00/DataLV01
> resize2fs /dev/DataVG00/DataLV01
> mount /work
>
Actually, we've had "online growing" available for ext3 for quite some
time.
Presuming it's an ext3 filesystem, you can just do:
resize2fs /dev/DataVG00/DataLV01
HTH,
--Rob
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