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# 1  
Old 10-12-2011
LVM Help

Hi,

I have extended the logical drive on my SMART ARRAY on a BL460 C class blade from 72G to 300G (disk upgrade RAID0+1).
It went fine and the new larger disks have now sync'ed up.

I now need to create additional disk space on my linux OS (RH) via LVM but I am unable to see the additional space on the OS. The 'fdisk' does not show any additional partitions or space? Can anyone please advise how this additional space can get presented to the OS?

R,
D.
# 2  
Old 10-12-2011
Quote:
Originally Posted by Duffs22
Hi,

I have extended the logical drive on my SMART ARRAY on a BL460 C class blade from 72G to 300G (disk upgrade RAID0+1).
It went fine and the new larger disks have now sync'ed up.

I now need to create additional disk space on my linux OS (RH) via LVM but I am unable to see the additional space on the OS. The 'fdisk' does not show any additional partitions or space? Can anyone please advise how this additional space can get presented to the OS?

R,
D.
try rescan with new disk via your smart array driver..
Code:
# echo "rescan" > /proc/driver/cciss/cciss0

scan on all targets in iscsi subsystem..
X-> your current array host_number for check this
Code:
# ls /sys/class/scsi_host

after find host number and now try to force scan for all bus,target and luns..
Code:
# echo "- - -" > /sys/class/scsi_host/hostX/scan

now try
check messages from kernel buffer and look for any changes
Code:
# dmesg

check if any new disk(s)
Code:
# fdisk -l |more

check if any detections via lvm
Code:
# pvscan

regards
ygemici
# 3  
Old 10-13-2011
hi
I have same question but mine is vmware server
if i increased the size of vmdk file how to rescan the disks with our reboot?

Kindly help me
many thanks
# 4  
Old 10-13-2011
Quote:
Originally Posted by venikathir
hi
I have same question but mine is vmware server
if i increased the size of vmdk file how to rescan the disks with our reboot?

Kindly help me
many thanks
How to increase the size of a VMware vmdk file formatted as linux lvm :: TechBlog ::
# 5  
Old 10-14-2011
Hi
i am asking guest os under vmware ESX
this is for vmware local i hope
# 6  
Old 10-14-2011
Hi,

I have ran the suggested commands and got the following results:

Code:
[root@XXDBS2 ~]# echo "rescan" > /proc/driver/cciss/cciss0
-bash: echo: write error: Invalid argument

[root@XXDBS2 ~]# ll /sys/class/scsi_host
total 0
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Oct 12 15:14 host0
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Oct 12 15:14 host1
[root@XXDBS2 ~]# echo "- - -" > /sys/class/scsi_host/host0/scan
[root@XXDBS2 ~]# pvscan -v
    Wiping cache of LVM-capable devices
    Wiping internal VG cache
    Walking through all physical volumes
  PV /dev/cciss/c0d0p5   VG VolGroup00   lvm2 [63.06 GB / 160.00 MB free]
  Total: 1 [63.06 GB] / in use: 1 [63.06 GB] / in no VG: 0 [0   ]

Any further ideas?

Regards,
D.
# 7  
Old 10-17-2011
I have found a reboot usually picks up the additional hardwar, although it's always been on a VMWare server in Linux, I have found absolutely no way to add nwe disk space except to reboot it, running OEL5.5 (same as RHEL5.5 pretty much).

this was my previous post on the same topic to hot-add disk:
hot-add disk in oracle enterprise linux 5.5
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