Grow LVM physical volume

Published: 19 February 2017

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The pvresize command can be used to grow an existing physical volume so long as you grow the parition on the underlying device.

  1. Use fdisk -l /dev/sdc1 to find the start sector of the partition.
  2. Delete existing partition and create a new partition with the same start sector.
  3. Use pvresize /dev/sdc1 to grow current physical volume.