01-04-2012
Hi pinga123,
first of all, have you a backup of yuor data? Are you doing this on test or production system?
Remember to take all possible precautions to prevent data loss BEFORE doing anything. Take into account the possibility of having a downtime of the system you're working with.
Check man pages for command pvresize; it shoul allow you to resize the PV with the option '--setphysicalvolumesize size'.
Look also at the 'RESTRICTIONS' section of the man pages.
You can use the -t and -v flags to see what the output of the command would be without actually doing any change.
see ya
fra
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
pvresize
PVRESIZE(8) System Manager's Manual PVRESIZE(8)
NAME
pvresize - resize a disk or partition in use by LVM2
SYNOPSIS
pvresize [-d|--debug] [-h|--help] [-t|--test] [-v|--verbose] [--version] [--setphysicalvolumesize size] PhysicalVolume [PhysicalVolume...]
DESCRIPTION
pvresize resizes PhysicalVolume which may already be in a volume group and have active logical volumes allocated on it.
OPTIONS
See lvm(8) for common options.
--setphysicalvolumesize size
Overrides the automatically-detected size of the PV. Use with care, or prior to reducing the physical size of the device.
EXAMPLES
Expand the PV on /dev/sda1 after enlarging the partition with fdisk:
pvresize /dev/sda1
Shrink the PV on /dev/sda1 prior to shrinking the partition with fdisk (ensure that the PV size is appropriate for your intended new parti-
tion size):
pvresize --setphysicalvolumesize 40G /dev/sda1
RESTRICTIONS
pvresize will refuse to shrink PhysicalVolume if it has allocated extents after where its new end would be. In the future, it should relo-
cate these elsewhere in the volume group if there is sufficient free space, like pvmove does.
pvresize won't currently work correctly on LVM1 volumes or PVs with extra metadata areas.
SEE ALSO
lvm(8), pvmove(8), lvresize(8), fdisk(8)
Sistina Software UK LVM TOOLS 2.02.95(2) (2012-03-06) PVRESIZE(8)