Extending Virtual Disk and LVM online.

[Paul M. Dyer]

You could try this to get the new device size recognized.   If it doesn't work, then reboot will do it for you.

echo "scsi scan-new-devices" > /proc/scsi/scsi

partprobe is used for the situation where you have added partitions.

After you get fdisk to recognize the new size, the next step is to extend the ext3 filesystem:

ext2online /dev/sda6 (or whatever the partition number is)

ext2online works on mounted ext2/ext3 filesystems.

Paul


----- Original Message -----
From: "Ray Van Dolson" <rvandolson at esri.com>
To: linux-poweredge at dell.com
Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2008 9:11:46 AM (GMT-0600) America/Chicago
Subject: Re: Extending Virtual Disk and LVM online.

On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 06:57:32AM -0700, Tino Schwarze wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 06:32:27AM -0700, Ray Van Dolson wrote:
> > # omreport storage controller
> >  Controller  PERC 4e/Di (Embedded)
> >
> > Controllers
> > ID                                : 0
> > Status                            : Non-Critical
> > Name                              : PERC 4e/Di
> > Slot ID                           : Embedded
> > State                             : Degraded
> > Firmware Version                  : 521S
> > Minimum Required Firmware Version : 522D
> 
> [...]
> 
> > Not sure why the state is "Degraded" -- all of the physical disks
> > appear to be fine.
> 
> Because of the Firmware version.

Makes sense.  Thanks.

> The blockdev --rereadpt command might be helpful, too. But as far as I
> remember, I always struggled with Linux not seeing new partition
> tables... :-(
> 

Looks like I'd need to unmount the used partitions to do this.  I get
Device or resource busy.

Looking more and more like a reboot is in order! :)

Thanks for the suggestion.

Ray

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