- Add a new disk/lun
- Create a partition with fdisk (eg. create /dev/xvdb1 on /dev/xvdb)
- pvcrate /dev/xvdb1 #create the physical volume
- pvs #check physical volume is visible
- vgextend VolGroup00 /dev/xvdb1 #add physical volume to volume group VolGroup00
- vgs #check vgs has grow size and notice the free space (eg. VFree: 7.97G)
- lvs #check which logical volume you want to grow
- lvextend -L +7.96G /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 #grow LogVol00
- resize2fs /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 #online resize (DO IT RIGHT TIME!)
- Done. :-)
Thursday, March 18, 2010
Extend current system with LVM
I always forget it because I don't do lvm resize everyday. Here is note for myself and anyone may need to do same thing.
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