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--- tech:documentation:procedures:vm:vm_disk_expansion_lvm_xfs [2020/01/28 10:47] – [VM disk Expansion LVM with XFS/EXT4] kohofer
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 ====== VM disk Expansion LVM with XFS/EXT4 =======
-<note important>CREATE SNAPSHOT</note>
 Expand the original disk or add a second vdisk from **Infrastructure Client**.\\
-<del>If you want to perform a grow w/o reboot you have to add a second disk.</del>
 If you are on a kernel newer or equal to 2.6.32 then you can issue the command
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 Create an additional partition on the free space, say you increased the existing disc
 from 8GB to 15GB. The partition type is 8e.
   cfdisk /dev/sda or cfdisk /dev/sdb
+**RESIZE ORIGINAL DISK**
+Resize the already existing partition, e.g. /dev/sda4 to the newly created free partition.
+  cfdisk /dev/sda or cfdisk /dev/sdb
+Now resize the Physical Volume
+  pvresize /dev/sda4
+and follow on.
+If you get a error:
+<color #ed1c24>GPT PMBR size mismatch (2362232011 != 2516582399) will be corrected by w(rite).</color>
+run this command:
+  parted -l
+and when asked to Fix/Cancel? type **F**
 # for example if the new partition is /dev/sda3
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   * swapoff: /dev/dm-1: swapoff failed: Cannot allocate memory
-[[https://leizhilong.github.io/blog/2018-11-12-case-study-swapoff-cannot-allocate-memory/|Swapoff Cannot Allocate Memory]]
+[[https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/321675/unable-to-swapoff-but-enough-physical-memory-is-available/472012|Swapoff Cannot Allocate Memory]]
+<del>[[https://leizhilong.github.io/blog/2018-11-12-case-study-swapoff-cannot-allocate-memory/|Swapoff Cannot Allocate Memory]]</del>
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 [[http://www.novell.com/support/kb/doc.php?id=3803380|LVM Volume Group Shows "unknown device"]]
+[[https://www.tutorialspoint.com/unix_commands/pvresize.htm|pvresize - Unix, Linux Command]]
 http://www.linuxhaven.de/dlhp/HOWTO-test/DE-LVM-HOWTO-2.html\\
 http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/40702/how-to-manage-and-use-lvm-logical-volume-management-in-ubuntu/