Thank you, Howard! I will try this and report back. Yesterday when I tried lvextend on nala-var I was receiving a 0 PE available error, looks like I definitely missed a step.
On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 9:54 AM, Howard Coles <[email protected]> wrote: > You're just about there. > > All you have to do now is shrink /dev/mapper/nala-home's LV. > lvreduce -L301G /dev/mapper/nala-home > (the extra GB is so you have some extra room for the filesystem) > > you could have used lvreduce instead of resize2fs > lvreduce -L300G -r /dev/mapper/nala-home > > you may think about resizing it back out and letting lvreduce do both at > the same time so that you don't truncate your file system. > > Then you can extend the LV for nala-var if they are on the same Volume > Group: > lvextend -L+49G -r /dev/mapper/nala-var > (size may need to be adjusted as it may not work out to exactly 50G, run > pvdisplay again and multiply the "free PE" number and the "PE size number" > and divide by 1024 and it should be about 49 GB). > > if the -r gives you trouble run it again with out it and then run: > resize2fs /dev/mapper/nala-home > and it will fill out the available space. > > I'm using Fedora 17 so you may want to look at the help for your distro > for the switches lvextend --help or lvreduce --help. > On Oct 31, 2012 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 >> * >> * >> *Raymond Beaudoin* >> >> -- >> 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 >> > -- > 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 > -- 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
