Re: Resize problem with LVM and SAN

[Andrew Clausen]

On Fri, Jan 28, 2005 at 08:47:09PM -0700, Kreig DuBose wrote:
>    Many thanks for the reply.  First I want to say I understand that there
>    are newer versions of parted out there but that I'm restricted to using
>    the version I mentioned initially as it's what ships with RHEL3 update 3.
> 
>    Regarding the following information:
>    Using /dev/sdc
> 
>   Information: The operating system thinks the geometry on /dev/sdc is
>   26577/255/63.  Therefore, cylinder 1024 ends at 8032.499M.
>   (parted) print
>   Disk geometry for /dev/sdc: 0.000-208483.328 megabytes
>   Disk label type: msdos
>   Minor    Start       End     Type      Filesystem  Flags
>   1          0.031 138984.213  primary               lvm
>   (parted)
> 
>    There isn't a FileSystem label showing .. Is that the problem?  If so is
>    there a way for me to "tell" it ext3 or ext2 ?

Is it actually a LVM partition, rather than an ext2 partition?
If yes, you want to use the LVM tools (lvresize, and perhaps resize2fs,
IIRC)

Cheers,
Andrew