[ale] Seeking LVM presentation [ was: LVM - Can't add new drive?]

[James P. Kinney III]

On Mon, 2005-01-24 at 10:40 -0500, Michael Hirsch wrote:
> This might be a good time to extend a general invitation to give a
> presentation on LVM.  LVM is a tool that many casual users don't know
> much about, but it should be in our bag of tricks.  So, if you use VLM,
> please consider volunteering to present it to the rest of us.
> 
> ALE Central has no speaker for February, and later dates are available
> too.  Email me to schedule your talk.

I thought we were getting an Astrisk talk for Feb? :(
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Michael
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of
> Kent
> > Pirkle
> > Sent: Saturday, January 22, 2005 1:26 PM
> > To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
> > Subject: Re: [ale] LVM - Can't add new drive?
> > 
> > Once you've extended the logical volume, you need to extend the
> > filesystem as well, using either resize2fs or ext2online (to resize
> > without unmounting).b
> > 
> > If you want to shrink a logical volume, always shrink the filesystem
> > first, then the lv.
> > 
> > 
> > On Sat, 22 Jan 2005 13:00:08 -0500, Nathan J. Underwood
> > <ale1 at cybertechcafe.net> wrote:
> > > I have an FC3 box with a single 30GB drive.  When I built the box, I
> > > knew that I would need more than the 30GB for the /home partition,
> but
> > > didn't have a larger drive at the time (had one, but it was in use
> in
> > > the box that this box is replacing).  At any rate, I setup the /home
> > > partition to be an lvm partition.  I'm now to the point of adding
> the
> > > new drive to the new machine, but I can't seem to get it to 'see'
> that
> > > new space.  I added the drive, and created (using fdisk) added one
> > > single 160GB lvm (type 8e) partition.  I then used vgextend to add
> that
> > > drive to my volume group (VolGroup00, not creative, but that wasn't
> the
> > > idea).  Then, I did lvextend -L 100G /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00, and
> got
> > > no errors.  lvdisplay shows that the LVSize is 150.00GB, but df -h
> only
> > > shows the following:
> > >
> > > [root at linux-fs2 home]# df -h
> > > Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> > > /dev/hda1             9.7G  1.7G  7.5G  19% /
> > > none                  252M     0  252M   0% /dev/shm
> > > /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00
> > >                         18G  4.5G   13G  27% /home
> > >
> > > I'm on the howto from tldp
> > > (http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/index.html) now trying to
> figure
> > > out what I've missed, but would appreciate any gentle nudges in the
> > > right direction.
> > >
> > > nathan
> > >
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