Increasing size of existing filesystem

[Phil Storer]

Forgot to mention that the logical volume is not mirrored so I'm not sure how it's set to strict

[Michael Tully]

The answer is in the 'lvchange' command.

This should do it:

# lvchange -s n /dev/vg01/lvolX

How it got that way, well someone must have set it that way. When an lv is created, the strict option is not used as part of the default setting. Once you have removed the 'strict' allocation policy, you should be okay in extending the volume. Have a look at the man pages for both lvcreate/lvextend/lvchange

[Con O'Kelly]

Hi Phil

I'd actually say in your case that if your Logical Volume is not mirrored you don't need to worry about the strict option. It only applies to mirrored volumes.
When an LV is created then "strict" is the default.

A problem might only arise if the volume is mirrored or is contiguous.

The command you have will increase the LV to 500MB. This will work perfectly if you have the space free in the Volume Group.

Cheers
Con