You shouldn't have unount to resize. We increase all the time with both 10 and 11.
The command is different between the 2 though. Marcy. Sent from my BlackBerry. ----- Original Message ----- From: Scott Rohling [mailto:scott.rohl...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2012 03:43 PM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU <LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU> Subject: Re: [LINUX-390] Cannot add drive to existing LVM SLES 11 SP 1 just realized that the lvextend command I showed should be: lvextend -L +2G /dev/testvg/testlv And - if the error is about resize - then it's likely because the filesystem is mounted and you will need to unmount it. If yast got that far, I'm not sure what the state of your volume group is - so you may want to do a vgdisplay -v to see if the device did get added to the vg.. Scott rohling On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 11:42 AM, Scott Rohling <scott.rohl...@gmail.com>wrote: > It's not too difficult to do this on the command line: > > lsdasd and figure out what the /dev/dasd device is - let's say it's dasdx > > format it: dasdfmt -b 4096 /dev/dasdx > partition it: fdasd -a /dev/dasdx (make one partition using whole > deice) > lvm format: pvcreate /dev/dasdx1 > add to volume group: vgextend vg-name /dev/dasdx1 (where vg-name is > the volume group name you're extending) > > You can then issue appropriate lvextend command to add space to the > logical volume.. for example - add 2G to to testlv in testvg: > > lvextend +L 2G /dev/testvg/testlv > > Then issue appropriate resize commands for whatever filesystem.. > > Hope that helps - not sure about SLES or Yast system tools for this - I > always use command line. > > Scott Rohling > > > On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 11:28 AM, Tom Duerbusch < > duerbus...@stlouiscity.com> wrote: > >> I have an existing LVM that is near out of space. >> I created it with the defaults that came with SLES 11 SP 1. >> >> Now I need to add a drive to the LVM pool. But there doesn't seem to be >> an option to add a volume to the pool. >> >> I have done the same thing with SLES 8, 9 and 10, so it is not like I >> don't have an understanding of what is needed. >> >> So, I'm wondering if SLES 11 SP 1 just didn't include that option by >> mistake, or if the defaults changed to making striping, or something else >> that prevents just adding a disk to the pool, that I didn't pay attention >> to. >> >> I'm now on the tangent of bringing up a test SLES 11 SP 1 system that I >> can crash and/or destroy while playing around on adding a pack to an >> existing LVM. But just in case it is something simple, it is better to ask >> the collective, before I spend the hours on researching the problem. >> >> Thanks >> >> Tom Duerbusch >> THD Consulting >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, >> send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or >> visit >> http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> For more information on Linux on System z, visit >> http://wiki.linuxvm.org/ >> > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/
