Extending A Volume Group - Red Hat ENTERPRISE LINUX 5 - DEPLOYMENT Deployment Manual

Chapter 9. LVM (Logical Volume Manager)

9.5.6. Extending a volume group

In this example, the objective was to extend the new volume group to include an uninitialized entity
(partition). This was to increase the size or number of extents for the volume group. To extend the
volume group, click on the Extend Volume Group button. This will display the 'Extend Volume Group'
window as illustrated below. On the 'Extend Volume Group' window, you can select disk entities
(partitions) to add to the volume group. Please ensure that you check the contents of any 'Uninitialized
Figure 9.25, "Uninitialized hard disk").
Disk Entities' (partitions) to avoid deleting any critical data (see
In the example, the disk entity (partition) /dev/hda6 was selected as illustrated below.
Figure 9.29. Select disk entities
Once added, the new volume will be added as 'Unused Space' in the volume group. The figure below
illustrates the logical and physical view of the volume group after it was extended.
Figure 9.30. Logical and physical view of an extended volume group
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