I have a VMWare Server 3.5 system with 2 VMs. On one powered on vm I changed the disk size from 1TB to 1,5TB. But the vm didn't see any new unallocated space so that I reboot twice the server.
But nothing was happened… the OS on guest is CENTOS and the two disks are LVM.
fdisk see the new space… but none partitions on the disk.. lvm does not see any free space…
[root@srv-archive ~]# dmesg |grep sdb
sd 2:0:1:0: [sdb] 3145728000 512-byte logical blocks: (1.61 TB/1.46 TiB)
sd 2:0:1:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off
sd 2:0:1:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 61 00 00 00
sd 2:0:1:0: [sdb] Cache data unavailable
sd 2:0:1:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
sd 2:0:1:0: [sdb] Cache data unavailable
sd 2:0:1:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
sdb: sda1 sda2
sd 2:0:1:0: [sdb] Cache data unavailable
sd 2:0:1:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
sd 2:0:1:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI disk
dracut: Scanning devices sda2 sdb for LVM logical volumes vg_srvarchive/lv_swap vg_srvarchive/lv_root
and fdisk
# fdisk -l /dev/sdb
Disco /dev/sdb: 1610.6 GB, 1610612736000 byte
255 testine, 63 settori/tracce, 195812 cilindri
Unità = cilindri di 16065 * 512 = 8225280 byte
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Identificativo disco: 0x00000000
and the following is the pvdisplay where u can see 0 free space:
# pvdisplay
--- Physical volume ---
PV Name /dev/sdb
VG Name vg_archive
PV Size 1000,00 GiB / not usable 4,00 MiB
Allocatable yes (but full)
PE Size 4,00 MiB
Total PE 255999
Free PE 0
Allocated PE 255999
PV UUID 3Qftxe-rpff-TjTA-9CA4-BoeM-qEgc-RzSzXL
I want only expand my lvm device..
thanks very much
cheers luigi
Best Answer
You might want to try a different approach: