Adding a hard drive to an Ubuntu LVM VM

[starkruzr]

I added a 1TB HDD device to an Ubuntu VM with LVM on it, shut it down, and restarted it.

lvm> lvmdiskscan  /dev/ram0             [      64.00 MiB] 
  /dev/Tauron-vg/root   [     244.77 GiB] 
  /dev/ram1             [      64.00 MiB] 
  /dev/Tauron-vg/swap_1 [       4.00 GiB] 
  /dev/vda1             [     243.00 MiB] 
  /dev/ram2             [      64.00 MiB] 
  /dev/ram3             [      64.00 MiB] 
  /dev/ram4             [      64.00 MiB] 
  /dev/ram5             [      64.00 MiB] 
  /dev/vda5             [     249.76 GiB] LVM physical volume
  /dev/ram6             [      64.00 MiB] 
  /dev/ram7             [      64.00 MiB] 
  /dev/ram8             [      64.00 MiB] 
  /dev/ram9             [      64.00 MiB] 
  /dev/ram10            [      64.00 MiB] 
  /dev/ram11            [      64.00 MiB] 
  /dev/ram12            [      64.00 MiB] 
  /dev/ram13            [      64.00 MiB] 
  /dev/ram14            [      64.00 MiB] 
  /dev/ram15            [      64.00 MiB] 
  1 disk
  18 partitions
  0 LVM physical volume whole disks
  1 LVM physical volume

Where the heck is it?

 

[wahmed]

Did you extend your existing LVM to the new disk image and resized it ?

1. #vgextend <existing_volume_group> /dev/<new_hdd>

2. #lvextend -l100%FREE /dev/<existing_volume_group>/<existing_lv>

3. #resize2fs /dev/<existing_volume_group>/<existing_lv>

4. Check with #vgdisplay, #lvdisplay

 

[starkruzr]

I actually want it to be detected and added as a separate drive, and mounted as something like /mnt/storage.

 

[pirateghost]

fdisk - l

Find out the device name.

If you want a completely different lvm, create a new lvm. . If you just want to mount the disk as a mount point you don't need lvm at all and the fact that you already have lvm has no bearing on anything.

 

[starkruzr]

I actually thought that once you had lvm installed it was responsible for managing everything related to block storage. I guess not?

 

[pirateghost]

I actually thought that once you had lvm installed it was responsible for managing everything related to block storage. I guess not?

Nope. It only manages what you tell it to

 

[mat5911]

LVM is not your problem. If you want to mount the seperate disk to /mnt/storage you can do that without using LVM.
See what dmesg says. Your new device must appear there. Otherwise it isn't detected.