Hi all,
I just installed a pair of drives into one of my machines (RHEL5.1) and
want to grow the logical volume that hosts the root filesystem so that
it uses all of the space on the two drives. (Yes, I'm aware it's not a
good idea to have the entire filesystem live in one single logical
volume. However, repartitioning the server is not really worth doing
since this is just an auxiliary web server that runs a few non-critical
web apps. I just don't want to have to rebuild the thing.)
I have fdisk'd the drives and vgextended the VolGroup00 volume group so
that when I do a vgdisplay I see that VolGroup00 is indeed using all the
space -- about 340GB. However, when I look at the size of the root
filesystem with df, it's still only using the 65GB from the original
disk. So, obviously, I need to grow the filesystem so that it takes up
the entire logical volume.
Thing is, I'm paranoid about doing this. I've backed up the entire
filesystem and now have the system-config-lvm GUI app open in front of
me. I've found the "edit properties" screen for the logical volume where
I can simply click the "use remaining" button and it *looks* like it
will automatically grow the filesystem (which is ext3) to the full size.
Before I click "OK" here, I just wanted to ask the list -- will this
work? Will this tool be able to automatically grow the root filesystem
without having to unmount it first?
Thanks,
Matthew
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Matthew Rich
Senior Web Application Developer
Northwestern University
School of Education and Social Policy
Annenberg Hall, Room 249
+1 847 467 2819
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