Re: new Jenkins VM in PHX lab
You forgot the 1st thing we told you - "don't create partitions on the
disk"...
Instead the whole disk '/dev/vdX' should be formatted as a PV, then you can
grow it from the engine and then 'pvresize' followed by 'lvresize'.
I didn't forget, I came across [1] which quotes [2] and [3] saying
best-practice is to create a partition on the PV:
*Not Recommended*
Using the whole disk as a PV (as opposed to a partition spanning the whole
disk) is not recommended because of the management issues it can create.
Any other OS that looks at the disk will not recognize the LVM metadata and
display the disk as being free, so it is likely it will be overwritten. LVM
itself will work fine with whole disk PVs.
although I am no expert in lvm so if we agree its ok, no problem, I'll
change it.
[1]
http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/76588/what-is-the-best-practice-f...
[2] http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/initdisks.html
[3]
https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/...
On Wed, Feb 10, 2016 at 11:02 AM, Barak Korren <bkorren(a)redhat.com> wrote:
> > able to do "live" storage incrase by adding a new volume to the LVM
> group in
> > the following procedure:
> >
> > created new virtio volume in the VM from phx-engine
> > fdisk /dev/vdd then: n -> p -> 1 -> enter -> enter -> t -> 8e
-> w
> > vgextend jenkins_lvm /dev/vdd1
> > lvextend /dev/mapper/jenkins_lvm-data -L28G
> > xfs_growfs /dev/mapper/jenkins_lvm-data
> >
> > I was unable to increase the volume size from the engine, and then
> increase
> > the partition size(only create a new partition on the same volume with
> the
> > new increased space in the volume), not sure if that is possible.
>
You forgot the 1st thing we told you - "don't create partitions on the
disk"...
Instead the whole disk '/dev/vdX' should be formatted as a PV, then you can
grow it from the engine and then 'pvresize' followed by 'lvresize'.
>
>
> --
> Barak Korren
> bkorren(a)redhat.com
> RHEV-CI Team
>
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