I'm trying to grow the disk space on a RHEL VM for a partition where Oracle lives via LVM.
After extending the disk in VMWare, I noticed there wasn't a partition on the disk, however I went ahead and created it.
Code:
[root@server ora]# fdisk -l /dev/sdd Disk /dev/sdd: 37.5 GB, 37580963840 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4568 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdd1 1 4568 36692428+ 8e Linux LVM
[root@server ora]#
I ran the following:
Code:
echo 1 > /sys/block/sdd/device/rescan
Space now shows up via fdisk.
When I run pvcreate, I now get an error:
Code:
[root@server ora]# pvcreate /dev/sdd1 Can't open /dev/sdd1 exclusively.
Mounted filesystem?
[root@server ora]#
Is this because of Oracle running from this partition? If I look for /dev/sdd under pvs or pvdisplay, I don't see anything showing for it:
Code:
[root@server ora]#
[root@server ~]# pvs
PV VG Fmt Attr PSize PFree
/dev/sda2 VolGroup00 lvm2 a-- 49.88G 0
/dev/sdb VolGroup01 lvm2 a-- 14.00G 0
/dev/sdc VolGroup02 lvm2 a-- 160.00G 0
/dev/sde VolGroup04 lvm2 a-- 100.00G 0
/dev/sdf VolGroup05 lvm2 a-- 100.00G 0
/dev/sdg VolGroup06 lvm2 a-- 5.00G 0
[root@server ~]# pvdisplay
--- Physical volume ---
PV Name /dev/sdg
VG Name VolGroup06
PV Size 5.00 GB / not usable 4.00 MB
Allocatable yes (but full)
PE Size (KByte) 4096
Total PE 1279
Free PE 0
Allocated PE 1279
PV UUID Z7Bgdj-x08L-2YYD-fPJd-m9i1-N21i-UnGvYQ
--- Physical volume ---
PV Name /dev/sdf
VG Name VolGroup05
PV Size 100.00 GB / not usable 4.00 MB
Allocatable yes (but full)
PE Size (KByte) 4096
Total PE 25599
Free PE 0
Allocated PE 25599
PV UUID gIgNqa-iiEQ-329I-sSdx-DfSD-pAyF-jZjm2P
--- Physical volume ---
PV Name /dev/sde
VG Name VolGroup04
PV Size 100.00 GB / not usable 4.00 MB
Allocatable yes (but full)
PE Size (KByte) 4096
Total PE 25599
Free PE 0
Allocated PE 25599
PV UUID elJIMF-WW3D-7TGu-yZ1I-VXdb-kAbC-SJzp6e
--- Physical volume ---
PV Name /dev/sdc
VG Name VolGroup02
PV Size 160.00 GB / not usable 4.00 MB
Allocatable yes (but full)
PE Size (KByte) 4096
Total PE 40959
Free PE 0
Allocated PE 40959
PV UUID Eeobz0-06zA-cF4S-sbdA-HCUn-e0NM-wmwoDe
--- Physical volume ---
PV Name /dev/sdb
VG Name VolGroup01
PV Size 14.00 GB / not usable 4.00 MB
Allocatable yes (but full)
PE Size (KByte) 4096
Total PE 3583
Free PE 0
Allocated PE 3583
PV UUID 3ysHky-IVRZ-ysIj-y7Bh-KCy2-idCY-W2vHe7
--- Physical volume ---
PV Name /dev/sda2
VG Name VolGroup00
PV Size 49.90 GB / not usable 25.37 MB
Allocatable yes (but full)
PE Size (KByte) 32768
Total PE 1596
Free PE 0
Allocated PE 1596
PV UUID UL00FM-WkrW-a9Ll-1zeS-Aget-f39e-jr2Uxe
[root@server ~]#
[root@server ~]# cat /etc/fstab
/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 / ext3 defaults 1 1
/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol02 /tmp ext3 defaults,nosuid 1 2
/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol05 /opt ext3 defaults 1 2
/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol04 /usr ext3 defaults 1 2
/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol06 /home ext3 defaults,nosuid 1 2
/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol03 /var ext3 defaults,nosuid 1 2
LABEL=/boot /boot ext3 defaults,nosuid 1 2
tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs defaults 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/VolGroup01/LogVol00 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/VolGroup02/LogVol00 /data ext3 defaults,nosuid 1 2
/dev/VolGroup03/LogVol00 /ora ext3 defaults 1 2
/dev/VolGroup04/LogVol00 /oradata ext3 defaults,nosuid 1 2
/dev/VolGroup05/LogVol00 /oradata2 ext3 defaults,nosuid 1 2
/dev/VolGroup06/LogVol00 /var/log/audit ext3 defaults,nosuid 1 2
So my guess is that Oracle is running, needs to be shut down. The partition needs to be unmounted and then pvcreate will work?
I've looked online for a solution and didn't find anything that matches what I'm facing.
thanks
