Re: [CentOS] resize lvm

2016-05-07 Thread Wes James
On Sat, May 7, 2016 at 7:57 AM, Robert Nichols wrote: > On 05/06/2016 02:15 PM, Wes James wrote: > >> I found this: >> >> # lvextend -l +100%FREE /dev/myvg/testlv >> >> doing a search. What's the difference between 100%VG and 100%FREE? >> > > For the special case of "100%" there is no difference

Re: [CentOS] resize lvm

2016-05-07 Thread Robert Nichols
On 05/06/2016 02:15 PM, Wes James wrote: I found this: # lvextend -l +100%FREE /dev/myvg/testlv doing a search. What's the difference between 100%VG and 100%FREE? For the special case of "100%" there is no difference. For values less than 100% with a non-empty VG, the two are quite different

Re: [CentOS] resize lvm

2016-05-07 Thread Robert Nichols
On 05/06/2016 01:42 PM, John R Pierce wrote: On 5/6/2016 11:39 AM, Wes James wrote: file -s /dev/dm-0 and it says XFS So would I use xfs_growfs? bingo!xfs_growfs can be used with the file system online, I'm pretty sure resize2fs requires the file system to be offline (unmounted). O

Re: [CentOS] resize lvm

2016-05-06 Thread Wes James
> > From: Scott Robbins > Date: May 06, 2016 12:32:55 PM > To: CentOS mailing list > Subject: Re: [CentOS] resize lvm > > On Fri, May 06, 2016 at 06:19:35PM +, Wes James wrote: > > I have a laptop that I put centos 7 on and I started out with a 30gig partition.

Re: [CentOS] resize lvm

2016-05-06 Thread Scott Robbins
On Fri, May 06, 2016 at 11:42:18AM -0700, John R Pierce wrote: > On 5/6/2016 11:39 AM, Wes James wrote: > >file -s /dev/dm-0 > > > > > > > >and it says XFS > > > > > > > >So would I use xfs_growfs? > > bingo!xfs_growfs can be used with the file system online, I'm > pretty sure resize2fs requir

Re: [CentOS] resize lvm

2016-05-06 Thread Wes James
On May 06, 2016, at 12:37 PM, John R Pierce wrote: On 5/6/2016 11:28 AM, John R Pierce wrote: On 5/6/2016 11:19 AM, Wes James wrote: sudo resize2fs /dev/lvname/root I get: resize2fs: Bad magic number in super-block while trying to open /dev/lvname/root Couldn't find valid filesyst

Re: [CentOS] resize lvm

2016-05-06 Thread James A. Peltier
- Original Message - | On Fri, May 06, 2016 at 06:19:35PM +, Wes James wrote: | > I have a laptop that I put centos 7 on and I started out with a 30gig | > partition.  I resized the other part of the disk to allow more space for | > centos.  I then created an unformated partition in t

Re: [CentOS] resize lvm

2016-05-06 Thread John R Pierce
On 5/6/2016 11:39 AM, Wes James wrote: file -s /dev/dm-0 and it says XFS So would I use xfs_growfs? bingo!xfs_growfs can be used with the file system online, I'm pretty sure resize2fs requires the file system to be offline (unmounted). -- john r pierce, recycling bits in santa c

Re: [CentOS] resize lvm

2016-05-06 Thread Wes James
On May 06, 2016, at 12:29 PM, John R Pierce wrote: On 5/6/2016 11:19 AM, Wes James wrote: sudo resize2fs /dev/lvname/root I get: resize2fs: Bad magic number in super-block while trying to open /dev/lvname/root Couldn't find valid filesystem superblock. what file system type is t

Re: [CentOS] resize lvm

2016-05-06 Thread John R Pierce
On 5/6/2016 11:28 AM, John R Pierce wrote: On 5/6/2016 11:19 AM, Wes James wrote: sudo resize2fs /dev/lvname/root I get: resize2fs: Bad magic number in super-block while trying to open /dev/lvname/root Couldn't find valid filesystem superblock. what file system type is this /dev/lvname

Re: [CentOS] resize lvm

2016-05-06 Thread Scott Robbins
On Fri, May 06, 2016 at 06:19:35PM +, Wes James wrote: > I have a laptop that I put centos 7 on and I started out with a 30gig > partition.  I resized the other part of the disk to allow more space for > centos.  I then created an unformated partition in the available space,  ran > > > pvcr

Re: [CentOS] resize lvm

2016-05-06 Thread John R Pierce
On 5/6/2016 11:19 AM, Wes James wrote: sudo resize2fs /dev/lvname/root I get: resize2fs: Bad magic number in super-block while trying to open /dev/lvname/root Couldn't find valid filesystem superblock. what file system type is this /dev/lvname/root ? -- john r pierce, recycling bits

[CentOS] resize lvm

2016-05-06 Thread Wes James
I have a laptop that I put centos 7 on and I started out with a 30gig partition.  I resized the other part of the disk to allow more space for centos.  I then created an unformated partition in the available space,  ran pvcreate /dev/sda4 vgextend lvname /dev/sda4 lvextend -L 184.46G /de

Re: [CentOS] resize LVM (ext3)

2008-10-31 Thread David Hláčik
Thanks guys for help! Work is done, everything went fine .. Have a nice day, D. On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 3:24 PM, William L. Maltby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed, 2008-10-29 at 10:15 -0400, Filipe Brandenburger wrote: >> > >> Reduce the filesystem to 78G or 79G with resize2fs, then redu

Re: [CentOS] resize LVM (ext3)

2008-10-29 Thread William L. Maltby
On Wed, 2008-10-29 at 10:15 -0400, Filipe Brandenburger wrote: > > Reduce the filesystem to 78G or 79G with resize2fs, then reduce the LV > to 80G, then grow the ext3 filesystem again to fill all the LV. This > should make it safer when cutting the LV. That's what I always do. It eliminates sma

Re: [CentOS] resize LVM (ext3)

2008-10-29 Thread Filipe Brandenburger
Hi, On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 07:58, David Hláčik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How can i be sure that i will shrink ext3 to exact size 80GB and that the > same will lvreduce do? I do not want to cut from ext3 filesystem if i will > reduce logical volume too much Reduce the filesystem to 78G or 79G

Re: [CentOS] resize LVM (ext3)

2008-10-29 Thread Luciano Rocha
On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 01:38:06PM +0100, David Hláčik wrote: > > > > > > Now, for lvresize: > > lvresize -L 80G system/home > > Are you sure there should not be lvreduce -L 80G system/home ? Same thing. I prefer the direction-neutral lvresize. Regards, Luciano Rocha -- lfr 0/0 pgph8d6Kf9euL

Re: [CentOS] resize LVM (ext3)

2008-10-29 Thread David Hláčik
> > > Now, for lvresize: > lvresize -L 80G system/home Are you sure there should not be lvreduce -L 80G system/home ? Thanks! D. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] resize LVM (ext3)

2008-10-29 Thread Luciano Rocha
On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 12:58:32PM +0100, David Hláčik wrote: >1. How can i be sure that i will shrink ext3 to exact size 80GB and that dev=/dev/system/home resize2fs $dev 80G Then, to be sure of the real size: blks=$(tune2fs -l $dev | awk -F: '/Block size/ { print $2/512 }') fssize=$(tune2f

[CentOS] resize LVM (ext3)

2008-10-29 Thread David Hláčik
Hello guys, my scenario is following 1. I have LVM group named "system" 2. I have a logical volumes - system/root , ext3 mounted as / (20GB) - system/swap, swap - system/home, ext3 mounted as /home (431GB) I need to shrink system/home to 80GB (currently there is 57GB use