[BlueOnyx:12145] Re: Increasing disk space

[Mark E. Levy]

Thank you, that makes sense. How do I go about adding the new virtual disk to the LVM group? 


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From: "Christoph Schneeberger" <cschnee at box.telemedia.ch> 
To: blueonyx at mail.blueonyx.it 
Sent: Sunday, February 3, 2013 8:37:47 AM 
Subject: [BlueOnyx:12142] Re: Increasing disk space 


Hi 

I'd recommend not increasing the existing disks size but instead adding a second virtual one to the VM and then just add it to the LVM volume group and then grow the volume - both are doable while the system is online. 
Growing the main disk may certainly be possible too, but you need to boot from an emergency CD/system and first grow the partition and then the filesystem and there is some room for great havoc to happen with that while the approach with a new disk is pretty fail-safe. 

Hth, 
Christoph 

On 02/03/2013 02:27 PM, Mark E. Levy wrote: 



Hello, 

I need to increase the size of the disk my BO system runs on. I'm running BO on VMware, so I can easily add space to the hard drive in the VM. Please tell me that getting BO to see the additional free space is a s easy as rebooting... :-) 

If not, any reference points would be helpful. 

TIA, 
Mark 



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