VGEXTEND
Section: Maintenance Commands (8)
Updated: LVM TOOLS 2.02.53(1) (2009-09-25)
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NAME
vgextend - add physical volumes to a volume group
SYNOPSIS
vgextend
[-A|--autobackup y|n] [-d|--debug] [-h|-?|--help]
[-t|--test]
[-v|--verbose]
VolumeGroupName PhysicalDevicePath [PhysicalDevicePath...]
DESCRIPTION
vgextend allows you to add one or more initialized physical volumes ( see
pvcreate(8)
) to an existing volume group to extend it in size.
OPTIONS
See lvm for common options.
Examples
"vgextend vg00 /dev/sda4 /dev/sdn1" tries to extend the existing volume
group "vg00" by the new physical volumes (see
pvcreate(8)
) "/dev/sdn1" and /dev/sda4".
SEE ALSO
lvm(8),
vgcreate(8),
vgreduce(8),
pvcreate(8)