Expanding an LVM partition at the front

[Matthew Saltzman]

On Mon, 2011-02-21 at 21:00 +0100, Roberto Ragusa wrote: 
> On 02/21/2011 08:17 PM, Matthew Saltzman wrote:
> > So is there a utility that can move the front of a physical volume
> > partition?  (gparted and fdisk apparently can't).
> 
> [...] 
> Another probably much safer solution would be:
> 
> - get a spare disk (even USB external one)
> - create new PV, add to VG, pvmove your PV to the new PV
> - destroy and recreate your PV
> - pvmove from USB PV to enlarged PV
> - remove USB PV
> 
> This is less error prone. It can happen while the filesystem is R/W mounted too.
> 

That sounds like a better idea.  (Probably slower though.)

Thanks.

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                Matthew Saltzman

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