Lvm Extend Volume Group adding new Disk

These are the step to add space to and existing Logical Volume on a Volume Group:

1) add disk and perform  rescan-scsi-bus.sh
2) Add Physical Volume available for LVM:

pvcreate (-t)* /dev/sdc

3) Exteng the volume group (here namend system) with new create physical volume:

vgextend (-t)* system /dev/sdc

4) Extend target logical volume (here named /dev/system/opt) with new space (here 10gb):

lvextend -L +10G -t /dev/system/opt

5) verify :

lvmdisplay

6) In the end you have to resize physical space :

resize2fs /dev/system/opt

 

*Always by tiping -t you can test command before execute on production server.

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