On 3/21/07, Gregory K. Ruiz-Ade <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Mar 21, 2007, at 3:30 PM, John Oliver wrote:
> It's easy to add disk space with VMware, yes. But then you have to
> utilize that disk space... either by creating and formatting a new
> partition, or (what I want to be able to do) resize an existing LVM
> partition. But since that requires unmounting the file system on the
> partition, it would be kinda tough to resize one big / Unless
> there's a
> way to temporarily add that disk to another VM, resize the partitions,
> and then re-mount it in the original VM.
Assuming VMWare:
1) shut down the VM
2) extend the virtual disk or add another
3) restart the VM
4) if extended:
"lvextend /dev/vgwhatever/lvol -L <new_size>"
if new vdisk:
"fdisk /dev/sdb; pvcreate /dev/sdb1; vgextend vg00 /dev/sdb"
"lvextend /dev/vgwhatever/lvol -L <new_size>"
5) "ext2online /dev/vgwhatever/lvol"
6) done.
Well, that's it in a nutshell.
Just for clarification, I believe that only steps 1, 2, 3 are
specific to VMWare.
Corrections to this belief are welcome.
Regarding step 5, is support for ext2online enabled in current kernels?
carl
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