[ale] LVM Question

[Tim Meanor]

You may need to use ext2online to resize the filesystem if it is
mounted.  I can't remember if resize2fs will resize a mounted
filesystem.

-Tim

On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 10:11 AM, Joey Rutledge <joey at joeyrutledge.com> wrote:
> Gene Poole wrote, On 09/24/2008 09:36 AM:
>>
>> I performed an extend (lvextend) on a file system that was running out
>> of space.  All of the return codes and messages showed a good
>> completion.  However, when I did a display on the file system (df -m
>> /work) it didn't show that the file system had been extended.
>>
>> The first display command was:
>>
>>    lvdisplay /dev/DataVG00/DataLV01
>>
>> And it return the following messages:
>>
>>      --- Logical volume ---
>>  LV Name                /dev/DataVG00/DataLV01
>>  VG Name                DataVG00
>>  LV UUID                hU4l3x-QLGB-Bcat-rFo3-V7Oo-uKDT-1d1od9
>>  LV Write Access        read/write
>>  LV Status              available
>>  # open                 1
>>  LV Size                46.00 GB
>>  Current LE             1472
>>  Segments               3
>>  Allocation             inherit
>>  Read ahead sectors     0
>>  Block device           253:16
>>
>> The second display command was:
>>
>>    df -m /work
>>
>> And it returned the following message:
>>
>> Filesystem           1M-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
>> /dev/mapper/DataVG00-DataLV01
>>                         31742     20998      9107  70% /work
>>
>> Should I be concerned?  What can I do to make the available space show
>> up?  I've even re-booted the machine before I drafted the message.
>>
>> TIA
>> Gene Poole
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> Did you resize the actual file system once you resized the volume?  If
> you are using ext2/3 you can use resize2fs to grow the file system.
>
> Check this page out:  http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/extendlv.html
>
> Joey
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