Increase /dev/mapper/VolGroup-lv_home by adding an extra hard drive in liux system
 

Hi Team
Thanks a lot for the support you had been providing me. Now again need your help here. Actually i have a linux system with 1TB hd and /home area is showing 1TB. we need to increase /home area by adding an extra hard drive as 1TB to make it 2TB.
A snapshot is goes here for /home area:

Filesystem Type Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/VolGroup-lv_root ext4 50G 3.1G 44G 7% /
tmpfs tmpfs 1.9G 276K 1.9G 1% /dev/shm
/dev/sda1 ext4 485M 35M 425M 8% /boot
/dev/mapper/VolGroup-lv_home ext4 1.8T 197M 1.7T 1% /home

As per googling i have added hd and create /dev/sb1 pv and added this pv to existing vg.
following is the snapshot here:

--- Volume group ---
VG Name VolGroup
System ID
Format lvm2
Metadata Areas 2
Metadata Sequence No 8
VG Access read/write
VG Status resizable
MAX LV 0
Cur LV 3
Open LV 3
Max PV 0
Cur PV 2
Act PV 2
VG Size 3.64 TiB
PE Size 4.00 MiB
Total PE 953737
Alloc PE / Size 953737 / 3.64 TiB
Free PE / Size 0 / 0
VG UUID Km6NE9-n5sq-dDc4-cigp-w6Rk-sPLF-OvoKhu
After that system had restarted to take new effects.
It should be show me the size of /home area to 2TB but no change here.

[root@www ~]# df -PTh
Filesystem Type Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/VolGroup-lv_root ext4 50G 3.1G 44G 7% /
tmpfs tmpfs 1.9G 276K 1.9G 1% /dev/shm
/dev/sda1 ext4 485M 35M 425M 8% /boot
/dev/mapper/VolGroup-lv_home ext4 1.8T 197M 1.7T 1% /home

Could you please let me know how to increase /dev/mapper/VolGroup-lv_home this area to 2TB? I am totally stucked here.
please help me.

Thanks in Advance

The usual steps are
1. add disk
2. make disk a pv
3. add pv to vg
4. lvextend ...

http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/

I assume you added the new Physical Volume to the Volume Group with vgextend. Now you need to extend the Logical Volume "VolGroup-lv_home" with lvextend and finally extend the file system with resize2fs.

Thanks for your reply.
If i want to format whole hard drive by mkfs.ext4 /dev/sdb commnad,Is hard drive crashed or not?
can i use this later as it has 2000GB space? please suggest me.

I'm afraid I don't understand exactly what you're asking, or how it relates to your original question (if at all). What do you mean by "crashed"?

Dear Ser Olmy

i am getting the following error in Hard disk while creating the partition:

Disk /dev/sdb: 2000.4 GB, 2000398934016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 243201 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x55293afb

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 1 243201 1953512001 83 Linux
Partition 1 does not start on physical sector boundary.

Could you please explain why its happening? please share resolution with me.

Regards
New Member

I don't see an error message?

If you mean the "partition 1 does not start on physical sector boundary" message, that appears because of this:This is an "advanced format" disk with 4096 byte physical sectors, but for compatibility reasons it emulates 512 byte sectors. Each physical sector contains 8 emulated, logical sectors.

Your partition starts at emulated sector 243201, which is not a multiple of 8. This is not optimal, and that's why you're getting the "does not start on physical sector boundary" message.

how can i fix this problem? please help me

Delete the partition and recreate it so it starts on a physical sector boundary. The first sector number must be a multiple of 8. 234201 is not, but 234200 or 234208 is.

By the way, why does the partition start so far from the beginning of the disk?