Expanding an LVM partition at the front

[Roberto Ragusa]

On 02/21/2011 09:17 PM, Richard Shaw wrote:

> I'm not positive this would work and it certainly isn't elegant but...
> 
> Could you just:
> - Create a partition in the space preceding the current partition
> - Add the partition to the existing vg
> - Allocate those extents to the current lv
> - Expand the file system to fill the now extended lv.
> 
> I don't even like the idea, I'm just wondering if it would work. I
> don't see why this would be any different that allocating extents from
> several drives to make one lv / file system...

It works perfectly. I'm doing it all the time.

The original poster said he was evaluating this option too.

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