There is a new group of users "design" to add to the system. One way of dealing with this is to create a new volume group to hold their data. There are no new disks but there is plenty of free space on the existing disks that can be reallocated.
# pvscan
pvscan -- reading all physical volumes (this may take a while...)
pvscan -- ACTIVE PV "/dev/sda" of VG "dev" [1.95 GB / 0 free]
pvscan -- ACTIVE PV "/dev/sdb" of VG "sales" [1.95 GB / 1.27 GB free]
pvscan -- ACTIVE PV "/dev/sdc" of VG "ops" [1.95 GB / 564 MB free]
pvscan -- ACTIVE PV "/dev/sdd" of VG "dev" [1.95 GB / 0 free]
pvscan -- ACTIVE PV "/dev/sde" of VG "ops" [1.95 GB / 1.9 GB free]
pvscan -- ACTIVE PV "/dev/sdf" of VG "dev" [1.95 GB / 1.33 GB free]
pvscan -- ACTIVE PV "/dev/sdg1" of VG "ops" [996 MB / 432 MB free]
pvscan -- ACTIVE PV "/dev/sdg2" of VG "dev" [996 MB / 632 MB free]
pvscan -- total: 8 [13.67 GB] / in use: 8 [13.67 GB] / in no VG: 0 [0]
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Some space is still used on the chosen volumes so it is necessary to move that used space off onto some others.
Move all the used physical extents from /dev/sdg1 to /dev/sde and from /dev/sdg2 to /dev/sde
# pvmove /dev/sdg1 /dev/sde
pvmove -- moving physical extents in active volume group "ops"
pvmove -- WARNING: moving of active logical volumes may cause data loss!
pvmove -- do you want to continue? [y/n] y
pvmove -- doing automatic backup of volume group "ops"
pvmove -- 141 extents of physical volume "/dev/sdg1" successfully moved
# pvmove /dev/sdg2 /dev/sdf
pvmove -- moving physical extents in active volume group "dev"
pvmove -- WARNING: moving of active logical volumes may cause data loss!
pvmove -- do you want to continue? [y/n] y
pvmove -- doing automatic backup of volume group "dev"
pvmove -- 91 extents of physical volume "/dev/sdg2" successfully moved
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Now, split /dev/sdg2 from dev and add it into a new group called "design". it is possible to do this using vgreduce and vgcreate but the vgsplit command combines the two.
# vgsplit dev design /dev/sdg2
vgsplit -- doing automatic backup of volume group "dev"
vgsplit -- doing automatic backup of volume group "design"
vgsplit -- volume group "dev" successfully split into "dev" and "design"
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Next, remove /dev/sdg1 from ops and add it into design.
# vgreduce ops /dev/sdg1
vgreduce -- doing automatic backup of volume group "ops"
vgreduce -- volume group "ops" successfully reduced by physical volume:
vgreduce -- /dev/sdg1
# vgextend design /dev/sdg1
vgextend -- INFO: maximum logical volume size is 255.99 Gigabyte
vgextend -- doing automatic backup of volume group "design"
vgextend -- volume group "design" successfully extended
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Now create a logical volume. Rather than allocate all of the available space, leave some spare in case it is needed elsewhere.
# lvcreate -L750M -n users design
lvcreate -- rounding up size to physical extent boundary "752 MB"
lvcreate -- doing automatic backup of "design"
lvcreate -- logical volume "/dev/design/users" successfully created
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# mke2fs /dev/design/users
mke2fs 1.18, 11-Nov-1999 for EXT2 FS 0.5b, 95/08/09
Filesystem label=
OS type: Linux
Block size=4096 (log=2)
Fragment size=4096 (log=2)
96384 inodes, 192512 blocks
9625 blocks (5.00<!-- ) reserved for the super user
First data block=0
6 block groups
32768 blocks per group, 32768 fragments per group
16064 inodes per group
Superblock backups stored on blocks:
32768, 98304, 163840
Writing inode tables: done
Writing superblocks and filesystem accounting information: done
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