Still playing with iSCSI, so needed to enlarge the logical volume now I am actually using it.<\/p>\n
This post is just for my reference as for years I have been running resize2fs manually after resizing an LV, but I noticed in the man page the -r<\/b> option will do it automatically now. So posted for my reference to try to override my habit of doing all the steps individually.<\/p>\n Much easier than having to run resize2fs manually. Of course it always helps to know how to do it manually as some of the stuff I muck about with requires a lot of fiddling to fix once I break it :-).<\/p>\n I guess it may also manage shrinking an LV automatically as well; but as I generally only shrink a LV if I’m about to do something nasty with the PV(s) it’s hosted on I’ll keep doing that manually.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Still playing with iSCSI, so needed to enlarge the logical volume now I am actually using it. This post is just for my reference as for years I have been running resize2fs manually after resizing an LV, but I noticed … Continue reading \r\n[root@falcon ~]# lvextend --size +10G -r \/dev\/VolGroup00\/iSCSI01\r\nfsck from util-linux 2.19.1\r\n\/dev\/mapper\/VolGroup00-iSCSI01: 17\/983040 files (0.0% non-contiguous), 104105\/3932160 blocks\r\n Extending logical volume iSCSI01 to 25.00 GiB\r\n Logical volume iSCSI01 successfully resized\r\nresize2fs 1.41.14 (22-Dec-2010)\r\nResizing the filesystem on \/dev\/mapper\/VolGroup00-iSCSI01 to 6553600 (4k) blocks.\r\nThe filesystem on \/dev\/mapper\/VolGroup00-iSCSI01 is now 6553600 blocks long.\r\n<\/pre>\n