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resize PV and LV without reboot

Post by zio_mangrovia » 2018/10/09 04:09:55

I noted 2 different behaviour in LVM if I create Physical Volume to whole disk e.g. /dev/sda or if I create a PV to /dev/sda1, in both cases /dev/sda or /dev/sda1 are "Linux LVM - 8e".

If I need to increase size fo /dev/sda PV, I increase my physical disk (e.g. in VMware environment), I assure myself new disk size is detected by kernel (no reboot is necessary), I resize PV, LV and File System and I reach my target with no reboot server.
In second case that is /dev/sda1 (when I have LVM partition and not whole disk) I need to reboot server otherwise kernel is not able to detect new Physical volume size. There is way to make it with no reboot ? Why this case is different from first case?

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Re: resize PV and LV without reboot

Post by TrevorH » 2018/10/09 07:56:33

The kernel has the partition table in use and it will not reread it without a reboot.
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Re: resize PV and LV without reboot

Post by hunter86_bg » 2018/10/09 17:50:04

You can always try to run

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partprobe /dev/sda
2-3 times. Sometimes the kernel detects the changes, sometimes not.
My recommendation is to first add new disk (VmWare 5.5 limit is 60 disks - which is OK), then add it as a new PV and the rest is easy.
Extending a disk could cause the behaviour you have observed.
So in general you need to:

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  echo 1 > /sys/block/sda/device/rescan
Verify thew new size via:

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fdisk -l /dev/sda
Next, create a new partition (and mark as LVM) , as extending the current is quite risky - requires recreation of the partition but starting from the same sector.

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fdisk /dev/sda
Now comes the hard part -> re-detect the partition table:

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partprobe /dev/sda ; partprobe /dev/sda
If you see the new partition -> good to go.
Last , is to resize the PV and so on...

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Re: resize PV and LV without reboot

Post by zio_mangrovia » 2018/10/10 05:58:20

hunter86_bg wrote:
2018/10/09 17:50:04

My recommendation is to first add new disk (VmWare 5.5 limit is 60 disks - which is OK), then add it as a new PV and the rest is easy.
I'm referencing to increase physical disk size, I'm not adding new disk to VMware virtual machine but change its size to larger one.

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Re: resize PV and LV without reboot

Post by zio_mangrovia » 2018/10/10 06:13:19

TrevorH wrote:
2018/10/09 07:56:33
The kernel has the partition table in use and it will not reread it without a reboot.
As I said (and I repeat this job every month) in first case there is no need to reboot machine and LV is changed immediately.
Here is procedure:
  1. increase vmware disk size
  2. echo 1 > /sys/class/scsi_device/x:y:z:k/device/rescan
  3. pvresize /dev/sdx
  4. lvextend -l +100%FREE /dev/...
  5. xfs_growfs /dev/...
This procedure works only disk has no partitions, e.g. fdisk -l /dev/sdd:

Disk /dev/sdd: 107.3 GB, 107374182400 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 13054 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk /dev/sdd doesn't contain a valid partition table


If I have e.g. /dev/sda2 because it's a partition and not the whole disk , this task doesn't wotk and nobody can tell me why!

Disk /dev/sda: 85.8 GB, 85899345920 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 10443 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 13 104391 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 14 10443 83778975 8e Linux LVM

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Re: resize PV and LV without reboot

Post by TrevorH » 2018/10/10 14:26:10

The kernel has the partition table in memory. Obviously it won't do that if you are using a partition-tables-less disk.

RH disabled the ability for partprobe to do anything useful due to data loss problems somewhere between CentOS 5 and 6. It's still disabled and there are still data loss issues with it.
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Re: resize PV and LV without reboot

Post by hunter86_bg » 2018/10/10 17:30:52

And still ,
I have managed several times to redetect the partition table of the primary disk via 'partprobe' without dataloss , but this behaviour is not 100% reproducible.

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Re: resize PV and LV without reboot

Post by zio_mangrovia » 2018/10/11 08:15:15

hunter86_bg wrote:
2018/10/10 17:30:52
but this behaviour is not 100% reproducible.
What mean s It's not reproducible?

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Re: resize PV and LV without reboot

Post by zio_mangrovia » 2018/10/11 08:17:40

TrevorH wrote:
2018/10/10 14:26:10
RH disabled the ability for partprobe to do anything useful due to data loss problems somewhere between CentOS 5 and 6. It's still disabled and there are still data loss issues with it.
I don't understand it, because you are referencing to 'partprobe' command?
I can solve my problem with disk partitions without reboot?

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Re: resize PV and LV without reboot

Post by TrevorH » 2018/10/11 08:43:56

No.
The future appears to be RHEL or Debian. I think I'm going Debian.
Info for USB installs on http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/InstallFromUSBkey
CentOS 5 and 6 are deadest, do not use them.
Use the FAQ Luke

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