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Expanding Disks

Expanding Disks & LVM


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Virtual Server:

Disk

Firstly we need to rescan the SCSI hosts:

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1.
[root@ssh ~]#
 for i in /sys/class/scsi_host/host*/scan; do echo "- - -" > $i; done
[root@ssh ~]# for i in /sys/class/scsi_device/*/device/rescan; do echo "1" > $i; done

Expanded2. Disk:Check for updated disk size:

lsblk


AdditionalYour Disk:output will look something like this:

NAME            MAJ:MIN RM   SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
 sda               8:0    0   120G  0 disk
 ├─sda1            8:1    0   512M  0 part /boot
 └─sda2            8:2    0 103.5G  0 part
   ├─eCloud-root 253:0    0 102.5G  0 lvm  /
   └─eCloud-swap 253:1    0     1G  0 lvm  [SWAP]
 sdc               8:32   0   200G  0 disk
 └─sdc1            8:33   0   200G  0 part
 sr0              11:0    1  1024M  0 rom

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 3. Check partitions using fdisk 

fdisk -l

DedicatedOutput Server:will look something like this:

 
[root@server 
~]# 
fdisk 
-l
 
Disk 
/dev/sda:
128.8 GB, 128849018880 bytes, 251658240 sectors Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk label type: dos Disk identifier: 0x000b9cfe    Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System /dev/sda1   *        2048     1050623      524288   83  Linux /dev/sda2         1050624   218103774   108526575+  8e  Linux LVM

Additional4. Disk:Run growpart against the expanded device:

growpart /dev/sda 2

5. Run pvresize command against the partition:

pvresize /dev/sda2

6. Resize the logical volume, ensure to replace vg and lv with the appropriate values (these will typically be the same as seen on df -h):

lvresize -rl +100%FREE /dev/mapper/vg/lv

7. Check that the space has been applied to the filesystem:

df -h

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