Howard's suggestions worked. Thank you! * * * * *Raymond Beaudoin*
On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 10:09 AM, Raymond Beaudoin < [email protected]> wrote: > 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
