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Topic Title: Can logical volumes be expaned?
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Created On: 01/16/2007 01:07 PM

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01/16/2007 01:07 PM
mweber Apprentice Posts: 26 Joined: 11/17/2006	I want to create another vdisk in my logical volume. My volume group has free space yet. Can I make my logical volume bigger?
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01/16/2007 01:11 PM
cbarclay Fellow Posts: 216 Joined: 04/28/2006	You may want to create another volume -- each volume is meant to be used with a single virtual server. In 3.1, it is not possible to increase the size of your volume; you will need to create a new volume and clone the vdisks in the existing volume to it. Edited: 01/16/2007 at 01:13 PM by cbarclay
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01/16/2007 01:15 PM
mweber Apprentice Posts: 26 Joined: 11/17/2006	Extending the LV would be a server down time event then? When you say "volume" do you mean "volume group", "logical volume", or "virtual disk" which also is denoted as "V" ?
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01/16/2007 01:17 PM
cbarclay Fellow Posts: 216 Joined: 04/28/2006	I meant logical volume. Extending a logical volume requires the virtual server to be stopped in version 3.1.
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