Extending file system in LINUX

 Extending file system in LINUX

This morning there is a ticket in my queue to extend the /tmp file system on one of RedHat 6.2 hosts to 6gb. A few weeks earlier, when needed to do that, I used to commands. First the lvextend to make larger the underlying file system logical volume and next, the command resize2fs to extend the file system to use the additional capacity of its logical volume.

Today, I actually took the time to read the output of the man lvextend and I recognized that this operation just like in AIX can be done with a single step. The objective is to make /tmp 6gb big.

 # df -h /tmp
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/vg_sys-lv_temp
                        4.0G  137M  3.7G   4% /tmp

# lvextend -r -L 6G /dev/mapper/vg_sys-lv_temp
  Extending logical volume lv_temp to 6.00 GiB
  Logical volume lv_temp successfully resized
resize2fs 1.41.12 (19-Jun-2013)
Filesystem at /dev/mapper/vg_sys-lv_temp is mounted on /tmp; on-line resizing required
old desc_blocks = 1, new_desc_blocks = 1
Performing an on-line resize of /dev/mapper/vg_sys-lv_temp to 1572864 (4k) blocks.
The filesystem on /dev/mapper/vg_sys-lv_temp is now 1572864 blocks long.

# df -h /tmp
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/vg_sys-lv_temp
                      6.0G  137M  5.5G   3% /tmp

Note: It is the -r that makes extendlv to extend the logical volume and the associated with it file system. Using -L 6G sets the target size at 6gb but using -L +6G would make/tmp 10gb.