LVM2: Help, need to resize vg but cant?

[feld]

ok heres the deal. this is on an 80 gig hard drive

hdd1 /boot 64MB primary
hdd2 /swap 256MB primary
hdd3 / 1024mb primary
hdd4 lvm 7xgb with other partitions in it --taking up the rest of the hard drive. (logical volume)

and then after the lvm i for some odd reason wanted to put another partition there or something... i dont know. bad idea, cuz its like impossible. i dont know what i was thinking. well my volume group is only 58gb on hdd4. i want it to take up ALL of that partition.

well as you can see i have approx 20gb on the hard drive NOT being used. i want to use it right now (extend some lvs)


what do i have to do to get that volume group to take up the rest of the hard drive? vgextend is a null command... hasnt been implemented yet. i've tried creating another vg on that partition so that i could try the vgmerge but u cant have 2 vg's on the same partition.


does ANYONE have any idea of what i need to do? i'm lost; clueless and i really want this hard drive space! my only other choice would be to backup and ript it all apart, redo the VG and lv's, and put it all back on but i dont want to go thru that. what do I have to do?



-Feld
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< bmg505> I think the first line in reiserfsck is

if (random(65535)< 65500) { hose(partition); for (i=0;i<100000000;i++) print_crap(); }

[ecosta]

Are you sure vgextend doesn't work?
I haven't had the oportunity to test it yet but on my LVM2 the command seems to be working:

[feld]

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