On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 9:21 AM, Raymond Beaudoin < [email protected]> wrote:
> Hey Everyone! > > I'm a bit green when it comes to LVM. Could anyone assist me in extending > a Logical Volume? I believe I have successfully resized nala-home, but I > cannot for the life of me figure out how to add it to nala-var. Below are > more details. Thanks for taking the time to help me! > > *Goal:* Shrink /dev/mapper/nala-home from 350GB to 300GB. Take freed > space and add it to /dev/mapper/nala-var > > *Steps taken so far:* > > umount /dev/mapper/nala-home > e2fsck -f /dev/mapper/nala-home > resize2fs /dev/mapper/nala-home 300G > * > * > * > * > *Outputs* > > vgdisplay output > --- Volume group --- > VG Name nala > System ID > Format lvm2 > Metadata Areas 1 > Metadata Sequence No 7 > VG Access read/write > VG Status resizable > MAX LV 0 > Cur LV 6 > Open LV 6 > Max PV 0 > Cur PV 1 > Act PV 1 > VG Size 409.94 GiB > PE Size 4.00 MiB > Total PE 104945 > Alloc PE / Size 104945 / 409.94 GiB > Free PE / Size 0 / 0 > VG UUID 2udF5O-hCis-qf9U-CpgL-e1Dt-9Rj2-bgQYOQ > > > pvdisplay output > --- Physical volume --- > PV Name /dev/block/104:5 > VG Name nala > PV Size 409.94 GiB / not usable 2.00 MiB > Allocatable yes (but full) > PE Size 4.00 MiB > Total PE 104945 > Free PE 0 > Allocated PE 104945 > PV UUID wjWb2a-dV0V-c7TH-RIi6-affe-fKZY-V7L9dW > > > df -h output > Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on > /dev/mapper/nala-root > 322M 152M 154M 50% / > tmpfs 3.9G 0 3.9G 0% /lib/init/rw > udev 3.9G 140K 3.9G 1% /dev > tmpfs 3.9G 0 3.9G 0% /dev/shm > /dev/cciss/c0d0p1 228M 16M 201M 8% /boot > /dev/mapper/nala-home > 296G 4.2G 277G 2% /home > /dev/mapper/nala-tmp 368M 11M 339M 3% /tmp > /dev/mapper/nala-usr 8.3G 765M 7.1G 10% /usr > /dev/mapper/nala-var 2.8G 739M 1.9G 28% /var > > Have you done an lvextend and resize2fs on nala-var? That's how you would grow that logical volume if the space is already available in the volume group. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en
