howto:how_to_add_a_disk_in_nethserver_with_lvm

Version and revision: V1.0 / R5

Skill: General audience.

Published: 2015-09-08

Review: 2017-06-06

Description: We will see how to add a hard drive in an existing Virtual Group. All command output a french formatted, because I'm french, on a french NethServer.

This guide is for Mac OS X versions “El Capitan”, and before.
For MacOs Sierra and after, AFP is not require anymore.

At first, I'm strongly recommending to read this LVM Administrator's Guide:
https://www.centos.org/docs/5/html/Cluster_Logical_Volume_Manager/

There's all you need to understand what is LVM and how to play safely with it.

In my Microserver Gen8 I have one 160 GB disk in the bay one. This one was configuring like this:

# disk -l
Disque /dev/sda: 160.0 Go, 160041885696 octets
255 têtes, 63 secteurs/piste, 19457 cylindres
Unités = cylindres de 16065 * 512 = 8225280 octets
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Identifiant de disque : 0x0002bf10
    
Périphérique Amorce  Début        Fin      Blocs     Id  Système
/dev/sda1   *           1          64      512000   83  Linux
La partition 1 ne se termine pas sur une frontière de cylindre.
/dev/sda2              64       19458   155777024   8e  Linux LVM
    
Disque /dev/mapper/vg_microserver-lv_root: 53.7 Go, 53687091200 octets
255 têtes, 63 secteurs/piste, 6527 cylindres
Unités = cylindres de 16065 * 512 = 8225280 octets
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Identifiant de disque : 0x00000000
    
Disque /dev/mapper/vg_microserver-lv_home: 101.8 Go, 101833506816 octets
255 têtes, 63 secteurs/piste, 12380 cylindres
Unités = cylindres de 16065 * 512 = 8225280 octets
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Identifiant de disque : 0x00000000

Disque /dev/mapper/vg_microserver-lv_swap: 3992 Mo, 3992977408 octets
255 têtes, 63 secteurs/piste, 485 cylindres
Unités = cylindres de 16065 * 512 = 8225280 octets
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Identifiant de disque : 0x00000000

When I went to put one more 1Tb disk in the second bay, I didn`t want to simply add one partition, but wanted to expend the LVM volume to have flexibility of LVM for futures upgrades.

So when I plugged the 1TB drive, I went to connect in SSH to the server and became root. did a fdisk -l to ensure the this was well seeing, with the output, I saw a /dev/sdb drive.

So I had create the physical volume:

# pvcreate /dev/sdb

When done

# pvdisplay

To extend the VolumeGroup, I needed the name of this one, so:

# vgdisplay

In this case the VG name is vg_microserver. So, to extend the actual volume group

vgextend vg_microserver /dev/sdb

To be able to use the new disk space in the volume group, I needed to create a new logical volume in the volume group.

In my case, I want to use all the free space, and the logical volume need a name, it will be tmbackup

# lvcreate -l 100%FREE -n tmbackup vg_microserver

here the output of the lvdisplay command

 --- Logical volume ---
  LV Path                /dev/vg_microserver/lv_root
  LV Name                lv_root
  VG Name                vg_microserver
  LV UUID                uw6t0l-RpXQ-dHzo-LmNY-wHBY-NpTE-qA6UT7
  LV Write Access        read/write
  LV Creation host, time nethserver, 2015-07-26 20:21:10 -0300
  LV Status              available
  # open                 1
  LV Size                50,00 GiB
  Current LE             12800
  Segments               1
  Allocation             inherit
  Read ahead sectors     auto
  - currently set to     256
  Block device           253:0
   
  --- Logical volume ---
  LV Path                /dev/vg_microserver/lv_home
  LV Name                lv_home
  VG Name                vg_microserver
  LV UUID                QBk1ca-fD7E-DbaG-Yk2O-WD15-2biU-dKfjww
  LV Write Access        read/write
  LV Creation host, time nethserver, 2015-07-26 20:21:30 -0300
  LV Status              available
  # open                 1
  LV Size                94,84 GiB
  Current LE             24279
  Segments               1
  Allocation             inherit
  Read ahead sectors     auto
  - currently set to     256
  Block device           253:2
   
  --- Logical volume ---
  LV Path                /dev/vg_microserver/lv_swap
  LV Name                lv_swap
  VG Name                vg_microserver
  LV UUID                7tAuVa-zzpY-gBnr-nc95-P35Y-gg2f-kSkMfn
  LV Write Access        read/write
  LV Creation host, time nethserver, 2015-07-26 20:22:16 -0300
  LV Status              available
  # open                 1
  LV Size                3,72 GiB
  Current LE             952
  Segments               1
  Allocation             inherit
  Read ahead sectors     auto
  - currently set to     256
  Block device           253:1
   
  --- Logical volume ---
  LV Path                /dev/vg_microserver/lv_tmbackup
  LV Name                lv_tmbackup
  VG Name                vg_microserver
  LV UUID                lyioV1-8q8e-sTDz-mxpv-tBrD-M5Eb-h8WKRR
  LV Write Access        read/write
  LV Creation host, time nethserver, 2015-08-04 21:07:20 -0300
  LV Status              available
  # open                 1
  LV Size                931,51 GiB
  Current LE             238467
  Segments               1
  Allocation             inherit
  Read ahead sectors     auto
  - currently set to     256
  Block device           253:3

When all was done, i need to create the ext4 partition in this new volume:

# mkfs.ext4 /dev/vg_microserver/lv_tmbackup

Finally, I mounted the partition in /home/tmbackup

# mount -t ext4 /dev/mapper/vg_microserver-lv_tmbackup /home/tmbackup

I adjusted the /etc/fstab to automatically mount the partition at startup

/dev/mapper/vg_microserver-lv_root      /       ext4    defaults        1 1
UUID=6409d507-3801-4089-b451-4d671026c268       /boot   ext4    defaults        1 2
/dev/mapper/vg_microserver-lv_home      /home   ext4    defaults        1 2
/dev/mapper/vg_microserver-lv_swap      swap    swap    defaults        0 0
/dev/mapper/vg_microserver-lv_tmbackup  /home/tmbackup  ext4  defaults   1 2
tmpfs   /dev/shm        tmpfs   defaults        0 0
devpts  /dev/pts        devpts  gid=5,mode=620  0 0
sysfs   /sys    sysfs   defaults        0 0
proc    /proc   proc    defaults        0 0

That's all ! :-P

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