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adding free space to LVM

I replaced 146GB drives with 300GB drives in a HP server and extended the Raid 5 partition using HP smart array manager. I now have a 900GB HP Raid array logical volume and want to use the free space in CentOS 7 with LVM.

I want to allocate the free space to my home filesystem. What is the best way to accomplish this? I thought about trying to use fdisk to change the ending sector for partition 2 to have it end at 900 instead of 450. I know I could create a new partition with the free space and add it to the LVM group. Then add that to the filesystem. I'm not sure what is the best approach so thought I would ask the group. Thanks!

 

This is the output of parted and fdisk.

[root@jpvmserver ~]# parted

GNU Parted 3.1

Using /dev/sda

Welcome to GNU Parted! Type 'help' to view a list of commands.

(parted) print devices                                                   

/dev/sda (900GB)

/dev/mapper/centos_jpvmserver-home (367GB)

/dev/mapper/centos_jpvmserver-swap (34.4GB)

/dev/mapper/centos_jpvmserver-root (26.8GB)

(parted) print free

Model: HP LOGICAL VOLUME (scsi)

Disk /dev/sda: 900GB

Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B

Partition Table: msdos

Disk Flags:

Number  Start   End     Size    Type     File system  Flags

        32.3kB  1049kB  1016kB           Free Space

 1      1049kB  2149MB  2147MB  primary  ext3         boot

 2      2149MB  430GB   428GB   primary               lvm

        430GB   900GB   470GB            Free Space

(parted) q                                                               

[root@jpvmserver ~]# fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 899.9 GB, 899898718208 bytes, 1757614684 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: 0x00050878

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System

/dev/sda1   *        2048     4196351     2097152   83  Linux

/dev/sda2         4196352   840550399   418177024   8e  Linux LVM

Disk /dev/mapper/centos_jpvmserver-root: 26.8 GB, 26843545600 bytes, 52428800 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 /dev/mapper/centos_jpvmserver-swap: 34.4 GB, 34359738368 bytes, 67108864 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 /dev/mapper/centos_jpvmserver-home: 367.0 GB, 367001600000 bytes, 716800000 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

Comments

  • Renich
    Renich Posts: 1

    Check this one out: http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=269774

    Please, make sure you have backups before that. There is a way of backing up the partition table with gdisk. Look into it so you can restore it if anything goes wrong.

  • mikent
    mikent Posts: 1
    edited July 2016

    You need to use LVM to add this new disk to your volume group and then you can extend your logical volume.

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