Comments on: Expanding LVM Partitions in VMware, on the fly http://theducks.org/2009/11/expanding-lvm-partitions-in-vmware-on-the-fly/ geeky rambling Wed, 27 Jul 2011 13:50:25 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4-beta1 By: alex http://theducks.org/2009/11/expanding-lvm-partitions-in-vmware-on-the-fly/comment-page-1/#comment-76 alex Wed, 27 Jul 2011 13:50:25 +0000 http://theducks.org/?p=103#comment-76 Yeah, it looks likes that's the case. Yeah, it looks likes that’s the case.

]]> By: dionrowney http://theducks.org/2009/11/expanding-lvm-partitions-in-vmware-on-the-fly/comment-page-1/#comment-74 dionrowney Tue, 19 Jul 2011 23:23:34 +0000 http://theducks.org/?p=103#comment-74 I tried this but had problems with lvm recognizing the free space after the new partition was created. I had to reboot instead of running 'partprobe -s' as I was getting this: partprobe -s Warning: WARNING: the kernel failed to re-read the partition table on /dev/sda (Device or resource busy). As a result, it may not reflect all of your changes until after reboot. Luckily system was okay to reboot, but it would be nice to be able to do this on a running machine. After that the procedure was good. I am guessing it was because it was the vg with the root filesystem on it? I tried this but had problems with lvm recognizing the free space after the new partition was created.

I had to reboot instead of running ‘partprobe -s’ as I was getting this:
partprobe -s

Warning: WARNING: the kernel failed to re-read the partition table on /dev/sda (Device or resource busy). As a result, it may not reflect all of your changes until after reboot.

Luckily system was okay to reboot, but it would be nice to be able to do this on a running machine. After that the procedure was good.

I am guessing it was because it was the vg with the root filesystem on it?

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