[mythtv-users] I Added two 320 GB hard drives to my system, but I cant use them.LVM Problem.

[Derek Meek]

Mat Kyne wrote:

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>>>My wife told me that we needed to put our entire DVD library on Myth TV. 
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>>>I got two 320 GB drives, and a PCI-IDE adapter and installed the new 
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>>drives.
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>>>Before this I had  two 200 GB drives set up for dual boot, with 7 
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>>partitions
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>>>on hda, with about 120 GB for use in LVM with hdb, giving me a logical
>>>volume of about 320 GB. What I would like to do is extend the Logical 
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>>Volume
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>>>to include two  320 GB drives. (one TerraByte - - Wa hoo!).  Here is the
>>>problem. Everything that I have learned about Linux is because of Myth 
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>>TV.
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>>>(so I'm not a total Noob, more like a Nubian . . .) When I installed FC4 
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>>I
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>>>used the Disk Druid to partition my hdd's. I have no idea how to get 
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>>this to
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>>>work, I need a recipe, AKA step by step instructions. I have searched 
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>>the
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>>>lists, and used Google, and I am coming here almost as a last resort. If
>>>someone could either explaine it to me or point me in the righ direction
>>>that would be great!
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>>>Here is all the information that I think you might need.
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>>>[root at localhost ~]# fdisk -l
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>>>Disk /dev/hda: 200.0 GB, 200049647616 bytes
>>>255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 24321 cylinders
>>>Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
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>>>   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
>>>/dev/hda1   *           1         637     5116671    7  HPFS/NTFS
>>>/dev/hda2             638         650      104422+  83  Linux
>>>/dev/hda3             651        5112    35841015    b  W95 FAT32
>>>/dev/hda4            5113       24321   154296292+   5  Extended
>>>/dev/hda5            5113        6387    10241406   83  Linux
>>>/dev/hda6            6388        6452      522081   82  Linux swap / 
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>>Solaris
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>>>/dev/hda7            6453       24321   143532711   8e  Linux LVM
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>>>Disk /dev/hdb: 200.0 GB, 200049647616 bytes
>>>255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 24321 cylinders
>>>Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
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>>>   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
>>>/dev/hdb1   *           1       24321   195358401   8e  Linux LVM
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>>>Disk /dev/hde: 320.0 GB, 320072933376 bytes
>>>255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38913 cylinders
>>>Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
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>>>   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
>>>/dev/hde1               1       38913   312568641   8e  Linux LVM
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>>>Disk /dev/hdg: 320.0 GB, 320072933376 bytes
>>>255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38913 cylinders
>>>Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
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>>>   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
>>>/dev/hdg1               1       38913   312568641   8e  Linux LVM
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>>>[root at localhost ~]# df -h
>>>Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
>>>/dev/hda5             9.5G  4.4G  4.7G  49% /
>>>/dev/hda2              99M   13M   81M  14% /boot
>>>/dev/shm              252M     0  252M   0% /dev/shm
>>>/dev/hda3              35G  2.8G   32G   9% /share
>>>/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00
>>>                      324G  231G   93G  72% /video
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>>>[root at localhost ~]# lvm lvdisplay
>>>  --- Logical volume ---
>>>  LV Name                /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00
>>>  VG Name                VolGroup00
>>>  LV UUID                s2l2DR-TjYC-BVBP-cj9n-6Tq5-9GlP-tMrp16
>>>  LV Write Access        read/write
>>>  LV Status              available
>>>  # open                 1
>>>  LV Size                323.09 GB
>>>  Current LE             10339
>>>  Segments               2
>>>  Allocation             inherit
>>>  Read ahead sectors     0
>>>  Block device           253:0
>>>[root at localhost ~]# lvscan
>>>  ACTIVE            '/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00' [323.09 GB] inherit
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>>Can you post the output of pvs?
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>[root at localhost ~]# pvs
>  /dev/cdrom: open failed: No medium found
>  PV         VG         Fmt  Attr PSize   PFree
>  /dev/hda7  VolGroup00 lvm2 a-   136.88G      0
>  /dev/hdb1  VolGroup00 lvm2 a-   186.28G  64.00M
>  /dev/hde1  VolGroup00 lvm2 a-   298.06G 298.06G
>  /dev/hdg1  VolGroup00 lvm2 a-   298.06G 298.06G
>[root at localhost ~]#
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so you've done the /vgextend VolGroup00 /dev/hde1 /dev/hdg1/ already,
but you the additonal 600 Gigabytes doesn't show up in your logical volume?

based on the LVM howto you need to /lvextend -L+596.12G
/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 /and then umount the partition run resize2fs on
it and then remounti t