Re: Resizing LVM partition

[Richard Hector <richard@walnut.gen.nz>]

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 Type    FS Type                    Size (MB)
> ------------------------------------------------------------------
> c0d0p1     Primary      Linux swap / Solaris         1003,49
> c0d0p2     Primary      Linux ext3                  10001,95
> c0d0p3     Primary      Linux LVM                  429334,95
>            Pri/Log      Free Space                 146780,13
> 
> 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?

fdisk or similar to extend the partition, then pvresize to resize the pv
on it.

I haven't tried it, but that looks like the right tools from the man
page for pvresize.

Richard