[Cialug] lvm/resize2fs on /

[Barry Von Ahsen]

that worked perfectly.  it's almost as if someone had run into this 
before :)

the easy solution, of course, is instead of putting the new virtual 
drive into the existing volume group, I could have made a new vg, but 
that's too easy

-barry



Daniel Wittenberg wrote:
> Can you use ext2online to resize it?  That will do any filesystem
> include / on the fly.
> 
> Dan
> 
> On Thu, 2007-05-24 at 13:27 -0500, Barry Von Ahsen wrote:
>> I've got a virtual machine running / on an lvm.  I created a new 
>> (virtual) disk, added it to the volume group, and extended the logical 
>> volume to it.  but now I can't run resize2fs on it, because it's /
>>
>> I booted to knoppix, but it can't see the volume group (automatically at 
>> least, I didn't know what to do to make it see the group)
>>
>> anybody know a way to resize /?
>>
>> -barry
>>
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