Re: LUG: How to physically resize a logical volume group? - Thu, 28 Jul 2011 11:05:31 -0400

Subject : Re: LUG: How to physically resize a logical volume group?

From : Quang Le <qvle@ncsu.[redacted]>

Date : Thu, 28 Jul 2011 11:05:31 -0400

Thanks everyone for your advice! I guess I'll reinstall from scratch (I
made too many unnecessary partitions)

Quang.
On Wed, 2011-07-27 at 16:53 -0400, Jack Neely wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 02:31:23PM -0400, Quang Le wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I have some unpartitioned space lying next to a (physical) partition
> > containing a logical volume group, how can I merge 2 partitions into 1?
> > I mean logically, I know how to add a space to a logical volume group;
> > but I don' t like the fact that physically they are still 2 separate
> > partitions.
> >
> > Please help this newbie, thanks!
> >
>
> Unless you really want to pretty much reinstall that computer I would
> just add the spare partition as a physical volume. Add it to your
> volume group and then grow your logical volume. Otherwise, you'd have
> to destroy BOTH partitions to make one big partition.
>
> Also, this kind of arrangement is what LVM is good at. You are already
> using LVM so you wont see a performance hit by using two physical
> volumes rather than one. (At least, not compared to just using the raw
> partitions.)
>
> Jack