Increasing size of existing filesystem

[Phil Storer]

Can someone confirm that the following is the correct way to increase the size of a file system. There's plenty of free space on the volume group.

==> lvextend -L 500 /dev/vg01/lvol1
==> umount the filesystem associated with the logical volume
==> extend filesytem i.e. extendfs /dev/vg01/lvol1
==> remount the filesystem

[Michael Tully · Accepted solution]

Yes this is correct providing that the existing logical volume does not have any special features like strict/contigous. You can check by using the 'lvdisplay -v /dev/vg01/vg01' command.

Also if you have the OnLine JFS product it is possible to extend it on the fly, using the 'fsadm' command.

[Con O'Kelly]

Hi Phil

Yes thats correct.
Be aware that the "-L" option specifies the new size of the Logical Volume rather than the amount to increase it by.

Obviously if you have On-line JFS you do not need to unmount the filesystem and can use the fsadm command to extend the filesystem.

Cheers
Con

[Karthik S S]

Be aware that the new size of the LV will be 500MB. Often people are confused with that. If you are having a 500MB LV and you want to extend it by 500MB then the switch should read "-L 1000".

-Karthik S S

[Phil Storer]

I did notice that the output of lvdisplay -v on the logical volume show's the Allocation as strict. Will this cause problems with the extension of the file system?

[Michael Tully]

yes it will. WHat is the existing logical volume used for?

If I suspect it is / or /stand or primary swap, these should be strict.
You want to create a new volume if possible and the defaults will not it strict. It is also possible to change the strict flag, but use caution.

[Jeroen Peereboom]

Strict means that mirrors of logical extents will not be on the same phyiscal volume ( or even volumegroup).

So you must check if all physical volumes used by your logical volume have enough space.

JP.

[Jeroen Peereboom]

By the way,

you may also use SAM to do this for you, but the filesystem must be 'unmountable'

JP.

[Gerhard Roets]

By definition you should also have the space available in the VG ;)

500Mb if it is a "vanilla lv" but more if mirrored. The space will also change depending on special attributes bound to this LV.

[Phil Storer]

Michael,
The logical volume is used for application software and user's home directories. mounted on /d01.
As you hinted it is possible to remove the 'Allocation=strict' entry. How do I do that?