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Extend existing logical volumes

Extend existing logical volumes

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Extend existing logical volumes

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- [Instructor] One of the beauties of logical volume management is the ability to resize an LV with non-contiguous drive space. For this exercise, we'll need to add another drive to our rhhost1 VM. Shut down our rhhost1 by right clicking on it and selecting shutdown and then shut down, and then go to the virtual machine manager agree window and click on your rhhost1 VM, and then click on open, now click on the light bulb. Now click on add hardware, make sure storage is selected and change the size to one gigabyte and then click on finish. Once tasks done power up your VM and then click on console. Now we'll open a terminal and get a listing of all drivers, do so by typing in cat space slash proc slash partitions and hit enter, our new drive should be slash dev slash vdc. We'll want to put a partition on it so let's use gdisk, type in clear and then type in sudo space gdisk space slash dev slash vdc and hit enter type in your password if prompted, press n for a new partition and then…

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