How to Extend LVM Partition?

jsu — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 21:55:07 GMT

Hello,
I used Clonezilla to create an image from a 146GB SAS drive and restored it to a 300GB SAS drive. I would like to expand the partition to fill the 300GB drive. Because gparted doesn't support LVM, i've been trying to make a go with the lvm tools but can't figure out the magic incantation. Can someone help? Thx.
pvdisplay:
--- Physical volume ---
PV Name /dev/block/104:2
VG Name VolGroup00
PV Size 136.59 GiB / not usable 30.43 MiB
Allocatable yes (but full)
PE Size 32.00 MiB
Total PE 4370
Free PE 0
Allocated PE 4370
PV UUID afygbk-acsm-lRaO-L2v7-7m4B-

lvdisplay:
--- Logical volume ---
LV Name /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00
VG Name VOlGroup00
LV UUID 2b3nwP-ZgmD-7hbh-dwkR0-LBUP-
LV Write Access read/write
LV Status available
# open 0
LV Size 103.19 GiB
Current LE 3302
Segments 1
Allocation inherit
Read ahead sectors auto
- currently set to 256
Block device 254:0

--- Logical volume ---
LV Name /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01
VG Name VolGroup00
LV UUID bSqvjT-NZaC-UkHj-Hr3w-
LV Write Access read/write
LV Status available
# open 0
LV Size 33.38 GiB
Current LE 1068
Segments 1
Allocation inherit
Read ahead sectors auto
- currently set to 256
Block device 254:1

ls /dev/mapper:
control VolGroup00-LogVol00 VolGroup00-LogVol01

ls /dev/cciss:
c0d0 c0d0p1 c0d0p2

Re: How to Extend LVM Partition?

Ricky_HK — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 02:31:22 GMT

How about create one more image file to fill up the disk. Assign the new image file as a new PV and add it to the existing VG. Then your VG will get more free PV, for you to do lvextend or new LV.

Re: How to Extend LVM Partition?

Michael Leu — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 13:01:16 GMT

A partition is something that sits below LVM.

Try these two steps:
1) expand the partition with fdisk or parted
2) then do a 'pvresize /dev/block/104:2'

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