Re: Resizing LVM partition

2009-03-31 Thread Chris Davies
Daniel Bareiro wrote: > Interesting... I tried increasing the size of a LV on which a virtual > machine KVM is executed. Then with the operating system running, I > umount (although I have understood that it is not necessary) the > filesystem /space of the VM and I extended it so that it occupied

Re: Resizing LVM partition

2009-03-30 Thread Daniel Bareiro
On Monday, 30 March 2009 22:20:03 -0300, Daniel Bareiro wrote: > Interesting... I tried increasing the size of a LV on which a virtual > machine KVM is executed. Then with the operating system running, I > umount (although I have understood that it is not necessary) the > filesystem /space of the

Re: Resizing LVM partition

2009-03-30 Thread Daniel Bareiro
Hi Tapani. On Sunday, 29 March 2009 18:33:43 +0300, Tapani Tarvainen wrote: > > In the procedure that you mentioned, when erasing and creating the > > larger partition the data that it maintainded will be lost > > No it won't. The contents of the partition will stay in place, > fdisk only change

Re: Resizing LVM partition

2009-03-29 Thread Tapani Tarvainen
On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 12:12:03PM -0300, Daniel Bareiro (daniel-lis...@gmx.net) wrote: > In the end you ended up being convincing to me and I was decided to > create a new physical volume that soon I added to volume group due to > its rapidity and facility Good. > In the procedure that you men

Re: Resizing LVM partition

2009-03-29 Thread Daniel Bareiro
On Saturday, 28 March 2009 19:10:59 +0200, Tapani Tarvainen wrote: > > But I would like, to be possible, not to have to be creating > > partitions by each disk that could be adding. > > Well, it is possible, just hard compared to creating > new partitions. Extra partitions don't really cost anyth

Re: Resizing LVM partition

2009-03-28 Thread Marcel Straub
Daniel Bareiro wrote: > Mmmm... I had not thought about that alternative. But I would like, to > be possible, not to have to be creating partitions by each disk that > could be adding. If your array grows so big you'll need GPT partitioning table, you will not be able to resize the partition at th

Re: Resizing LVM partition

2009-03-28 Thread Stefan Monnier
> Then I tried to resize with parted of systemrescuecd [1] the LVM > partition to having more space to extend the logical volumes, but when I > trying to do it I obtain a message saying that partitions LVM are not > supported yet. How I can to extend a LVM partition? I'd suggest to report a bug ag

Re: Resizing LVM partition

2009-03-28 Thread Tapani Tarvainen
On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 12:08:43PM -0300, Daniel Bareiro (daniel-lis...@gmx.net) wrote: > But I would like, to be possible, not to have to be creating > partitions by each disk that could be adding. Well, it is possible, just hard compared to creating new partitions. Extra partitions don't reall

Re: Resizing LVM partition

2009-03-28 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2009-03-28 10:08, Daniel Bareiro wrote: On Saturday, 28 March 2009 06:40:03 +0200, Tapani Tarvainen wrote: How I can to extend a LVM partition? Why do you want to do that? I've always thought it one of LVM's main attractions that it it makes partition resizing almost totally unnecessary.

Re: Resizing LVM partition

2009-03-28 Thread Daniel Bareiro
On Saturday, 28 March 2009 06:40:03 +0200, Tapani Tarvainen wrote: > > How I can to extend a LVM partition? > Why do you want to do that? > > I've always thought it one of LVM's main attractions that it > it makes partition resizing almost totally unnecessary. > > Instead, just create another

Re: Resizing LVM partition

2009-03-27 Thread Tapani Tarvainen
On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 12:01:18AM -0300, Daniel Bareiro (daniel-lis...@gmx.net) wrote: > How I can to extend a LVM partition? Why do you want to do that? I've always thought it one of LVM's main attractions that it it makes partition resizing almost totally unnecessary. Instead, just create a

Re: Resizing LVM partition

2009-03-27 Thread Richard Hector
On Sat, 2009-03-28 at 00:01 -0300, Daniel Bareiro wrote: > Hi all! > > I have a hardware RAID with a logical drive that I expanded adding a > disk being of the following way: > > Name Part TypeFS TypeSize (MB) > ---

Resizing LVM partition

2009-03-27 Thread Daniel Bareiro
Hi all! I have a hardware RAID with a logical drive that I expanded adding a disk being of the following way: Name Part TypeFS TypeSize (MB) -- c0d0p1 Primary Linux swap / Solaris 1003,4