topic Re: how to extend root file system under lvm safely? in Operating System - Linux

how to extend root file system under lvm safely?

Amit_Mohabanshi — Sun, 23 Oct 2011 20:56:53 GMT

Hi,

I want to extend size of my root file system in lvm. is it require to unmount file system or run e2fsck in this procedure. please

give me step by step procedure.

Thanks

Amit

Re: how to extend root file system under lvm safely?

Amit_Mohabanshi — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 15:50:59 GMT

Hi,
After I extended logical volume for / file system it was not showing me increased space in df output. I rebooted the to make changes affect. but after reboot it asked me to run fsck manually.. could anyone please tell me why this is happening?

Re: how to extend root file system under lvm safely?

Patrick Wallek — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 18:29:29 GMT

Did you extend the file system after you extended the logical volume? If not, that's probably the problem.

See this link for a good basic tutorial:

http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/extendlv.html