On Thu, 19 Apr 2007, Nick Murtagh wrote:
> Gavin McCullagh wrote:
> > I could do with a little advice from someone with LVM experience. Is it
> > possible to grow an lvm volume group into the space created when a physical
> > volume it is on grows (it's an md raid array)? If I try lvexpand, it
> > complains that the physical volume is already part of the group.
> >
> > I have a md RAID5 array with an lvm volume group on it with two logical
> > volumes on that. I've grown the RAID5 array. Is it now possible to tell
> > the LVM volume group to grow into the space (as opposed to extend it onto a
> > new logical volume, which lvextend seems to want to do).
> >
> > I've been looking through the docs but I'm a total novice at lvm and I
> > haven't seen this possibility.
>> Hmmm have you done a pvresize already?
Duh! Thanks very much.
Gavin
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