Re: Need hlep with LVM -

2013-12-21 Thread Chris Murphy
On Dec 21, 2013, at 2:11 PM, Roger Heflin wrote: > you will need a vgextend first something like "vgextend fedora_box1000 > /dev/sdb4" that will add the disk to the vg. pvcreate first, then vgextend to add. > /dev/mapper/fedora_box1000-home 17G 7.2G 8.1G 47% /home Oops, you're right, th

Re: Need hlep with LVM -

2013-12-21 Thread Roger Heflin
you will need a vgextend first something like "vgextend fedora_box1000 /dev/sdb4" that will add the disk to the vg. the df shows these 2 are mounted: /dev/mapper/fedora_box1000-roo t 34G 4.5G 27G 15% / /dev/mapper/fedora_box1000-home 17G 7.2G 8.1G 47% /home so either /dev/fedora_box10

Re: Need hlep with LVM -

2013-12-21 Thread David Beveridge
On Sun, Dec 22, 2013 at 2:49 AM, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote: > > > One of the failed attempts: > > [root@box10 bobg]# lvextend -l +100%FREE /dev/fedora_box1000/lv_root > /dev/sdb4 > Logical volume lv_root not found in volume group fedora_box1000 > > > Perhaps something will be obvio

Re: Need hlep with LVM -

2013-12-21 Thread Chris Murphy
On Dec 20, 2013, at 11:57 AM, "Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA" wrote: > It is installed in less than 60 GiB's which leaves the rest of the drive > unused, not what I wanted. I guess it preserved a /home partition for me? I > certainly didn't want it to take up the remainder of the drive. I

Re: Need hlep with LVM -

2013-12-21 Thread Chris Murphy
On Dec 21, 2013, at 9:25 AM, Roger Heflin wrote: > you will need to run pvscan and determine what the name of the vg is > you want to add the storage to. > > to get /dev/sdb5 -> /dev/sdb4 you reworked the partition table (ie > removed the extend partition and made sdb4 a primary?). /dev/sdb is

Re: Need hlep with LVM -

2013-12-21 Thread Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA
On 12/21/2013 11:25 AM, Roger Heflin wrote: you will need to run pvscan and determine what the name of the vg is you want to add the storage to. to get /dev/sdb5 -> /dev/sdb4 you reworked the partition table (ie removed the extend partition and made sdb4 a primary?). if still lost give this in

Re: Need hlep with LVM -

2013-12-21 Thread Roger Heflin
you will need to run pvscan and determine what the name of the vg is you want to add the storage to. to get /dev/sdb5 -> /dev/sdb4 you reworked the partition table (ie removed the extend partition and made sdb4 a primary?). if still lost give this info: fdisk -l /dev/sd[ab] pvscan df On Sat, D

Re: Need hlep with LVM -

2013-12-21 Thread Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA
On 12/20/2013 04:32 PM, David Beveridge wrote: Add the new partition to your volume group # vgextend vg_name /dev/sdb5 What should I enter for "vg_name?" I am trying to add /dev/sdb4 to /dev/sdb3, at least I think that's what I'm trying to do. [/dev/sdb5 is now /dev/sdb4] # vgextend vg_nam

Re: Need hlep with LVM -

2013-12-20 Thread David Beveridge
If I understand you correctly you will need to do something along these lines... You need to know the names of your volume groups and logical volumes. use pvscan, vgscan & lvscan to display what you have. eg root@MythTV:/etc# pvscan PV /dev/sdc2 VG vg_tv lvm2 [1.82 TiB / 59.31 GiB free] To

Need hlep with LVM -

2013-12-20 Thread Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA
I have a new Fedora-20 installation on a "650 GiB" drive by itself. It is installed in less than 60 GiB's which leaves the rest of the drive unused, not what I wanted. I guess it preserved a /home partition for me? I certainly didn't want it to take up the remainder of the drive. I've been look