Well, the big question is "Is your VM provided volume defined as an LVM device or set up to give fixed partitions?"
If the filesystem is an LVM filesystem and you have got the space into your volume group, then using lvextend should do the job. If you use the -r flag then it will alter the filesystem when you resize the logical volume.
If you filesystem is on a fixed slice of disk, then I think you are stuck with it. You would need to do something like this:-
Define the new disk or slice as an LVM Physical Volume
Create a volume group using this PV
Create a logical volume of at least 500Gb in the volume group
Format the logical volume as a filesystem.
Mount the filesystem & move the data
Edit /etc/fstab to point to the new filesystem to be mounted
Unmount the original filesystem
Unmount the new filesystem and remount it to the correct location
Destroy the original filesystem/disk/slice
Define the original disk as an LVM PV
Extend the volume group by adding this disk/slice
You are now able to use extendlv as described above. What do you have defined?
If your server is actually a single filesystem, then we're in more trouble.
Can you share the contents of /etc/fstab for a starter?
Robin
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I asked the VM guy about "Is your VM provided volume defined as an LVM device or set up to give fixed partitions?"
He replied :
The OS should see one contiguous hard drive. No partitioning
Thanks
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The 'VM guy' will allocate one or more devices. It's up to you how you use them.
If you display your device now, does it recognise the new size? If so, you are into my long-winded process to make it LVM so that we can be more flexible with it.
Disk /dev/sdg: 461.7 GB, 461708984320 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 56132 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdg1 1 43078 346024003+ 83 Linux
When I try to run fstat I get these error: -
Code:
bash: fstat: command not found
Thanks
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I used fdisk to check the filesystem :
Code:
sh-2.05b# df -h /disk7
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sdg1 330G 292G 39G 89% /disk7
sh-2.05b# fdisk -l /dev/sdg
Disk /dev/sdg: 461.7 GB, 461708984320 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 56132 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdg1 1 43078 346024003+ 83 Linux
sh-2.05b#
I want /disk7 to be 430G, How do I achieve this?
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