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Extend LVM partition size when there is no free space in the Volume Group

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Pradeep Kumar
Apr 20, 2014

There are some cases when we want to extend the size of LVM partition but if there no free space available in the Volume group , then first we have to extend the volume group , to extend the volume group add new disks in volume group using vgextend command.

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Pradeep Kumar

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