[sllug-members]: Logical Volume Changes

[Stuart Jansen]

On Fri, 2006-08-18 at 15:26 -0600, Brandon Toone wrote:
> We have a RAID system and on it I used CentOS to create Logical
> Volumes with a single Volume Group.  We started to run out of space so
> we purchased larger drives and hot swapped them in.  I thought the new
> space would just show up as "Free PE / Size" (from 'vgdisplay') but it
> didn't.

You need to enlarge the physical volume. In other words:

pvresize /dev/sdg

If that doesn't work, check the devices partition table, if you're using
a single partition instead of the entire device you may need to enlarge
the partition before doing the pvresize.

-- 
Stuart Jansen              e-mail/jabber: sjansen at buscaluz.org
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"However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at 
the results." -- Winston Churchill
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