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Extending LVM

Fri, 03/23/2007 - 09:19 — sandip

Extend partition by 1Gb.

# lvresize -L +1G /dev/vg00/lvol0
# e2fsck -f /dev/vg00/lvol0
# resize2fs -pf /dev/vg00/lvol0


Notes:

  • resize2fs has replaced ext2online in FC6.
  • need to unmount volume prior to doing resize2fs.
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Tue, 08/31/2010 - 09:31 — Anonymous resize2fs and lvreduce

Instead of calculating blocks, you could directly use 1G instead. Make sure to check disk with e2fsck prior.

e2fsck -vf -C0 /dev/vg00/lvol0
resize2fs -p /dev/vg00/lvol0 1G
lvreduce -L -1G /dev/vg00/lvol0

Thu, 04/26/2007 - 15:31 — sandip Shrinking LVM

To shrink a 2Gb partition to a 1Gb size.

Note: The block size is specified in 4k blocks.

1Gb = 1*1024*1024/4 = 262144 blocks.

# resize2fs -pf /dev/vg00/lvol0 262144
# e2fsck -f /dev/vg00/lvol0
# lvreduce -L -1G /dev/vg00/lvol0

Additionally, you can go back and do a resize2fs to the actual lvm size that gets created.

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