09-30-2012
Hi,
the sequence I usually follow in such situations is the following:
1. create a new partition on the remaining free space of the physical disk (say the new partition is call /dev/sda1);
2. declare the newly created partition (say, /dev/sda1) as a new PV;
3. add the new PV to the existing VG I want to resize and resize the VG;
4. extend the LV I want to exetend in the VG.
I think the last sentence in your previous post was the right way of doing it, except that you inverted points 1. and 2 (that is, first create a new partition on the free space and then use pvcreate on the newly created partition).
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pvdisplay
PVDISPLAY(8) System Manager's Manual PVDISPLAY(8)
NAME
pvdisplay - display attributes of a physical volume
SYNOPSIS
pvdisplay [-c|--colon] [-d|--debug] [-h|-?|--help] [-s|--short] [-v[v]|--verbose [--verbose]] PhysicalVolumePath [PhysicalVolumePath...]
DESCRIPTION
pvdisplay allows you to see the attributes of one or more physical volumes like size, physical extent size, space used for the volume group
descriptor area and so on.
pvs (8) is an alternative that provides the same information in the style of ps (1).
OPTIONS
See lvm for common options.
-c, --colon
Generate colon separated output for easier parsing in scripts or programs. N.B. pvs (8) provides considerably more control over the
output.
The values are:
* physical volume device name
* volume group name
* physical volume size in kilobytes
* internal physical volume number (obsolete)
* physical volume status
* physical volume (not) allocatable
* current number of logical volumes on this physical volume
* physical extent size in kilobytes
* total number of physical extents
* free number of physical extents
* allocated number of physical extents
-s, --short
Only display the size of the given physical volumes.
-m, --maps
Display the mapping of physical extents to logical volumes and logical extents.
SEE ALSO
lvm(8), pvcreate(8), lvcreate(8), vgcreate(8)
Sistina Software UK LVM TOOLS 2.02.44-cvs (02-17-09) PVDISPLAY(8)