Add disk/LUN to server. Have a look at Rescan SCSI bus for scanning the SCSI bus online. Alternative reboot the server.
Prepare PV's with
pvcreate /dev/<device>
For FC LUN's use /dev/mapper/mpath<x> according to Red Hat DM Multipath Configuration & Administration
Create VG
vgcreate <vgname> -s <Physical Extent size> <path to PV>
Create LV
lvcreate --name <lvname> --size <xx>G <vgname>
Create filesytem
EXT FS:
mkfs.ext4 -F -b 4096 /dev/<vgname>/<lvname>
Depending on distribution use relevant ext2/ext3/ext4 file system type.
XFS FS:
mkfs.xfs /dev/<vgname>/<lvname>
Extend the disk on the underlying infrastructure (SAN LUN / Virtulization platform)
Make OS detect the changed disk size
echo 1 > /sys/block/<device>/device/rescan
Where the <device> paramter is the physical disk eg. sdb
Resize Physical Volume
pvresize /dev/<device>
If LUN is under multipath:
multipathd resize map <multipath_device>
Where <multipath_device> is mpath<x> or wwid depending on multipath configuration.
Extend Logical Volume
lvextend -l 100%VG <lvname>
check man lvextend for further options
Extend filesytem which resides on Logical Volume
EXT FS:
resize2fs /dev/<vgname>/<lvname>
XFS FS:
xfs_growfs /dev/<vgname>/<lvname>
Determine which LV is in use by swap space
grep swap /etc/fstab Example of output: /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol01 swap swap defaults 0 0
Disable swap:
swapoff /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol01
Resize swap space.
In this example swap spaze is adjusted to 4GB.
lvresize -L 4G /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol01
Setup swap area on LV
mkswap /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol01
Enable swap space again
swapon /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol01
Verify with top or /proc/swaps:
top
output:
top - 13:32:16 up 14 min, 2 users, load average: 0.22, 0.08, 0.02
Tasks: 138 total, 2 running, 136 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
Cpu(s): 4.2%us, 1.5%sy, 0.0%ni, 93.0%id, 1.1%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.1%si, 0.0%st
Mem: 3925256k total, 486996k used, 3438260k free, 102092k buffers
Swap: 4194296k total, 0k used, 4194296k free, 118264k cached
cat /proc/swaps Filename Type Size Used Priority /dev/dm-1 partition 4194296 0 -1