online resize of lvm filesystem on fibre channel or iscsi or similar when using multipath
May 27th, 2010
I had a problem with a filesystem that was full on a vm. The vm’s hard drive is just a lun on a fibre channel. So I resized the lun on the raid controller. The devices (/dev/sdx) for the drive noticed the new size after I did the usual scan and partprobe, but the multipath device didn’t see the new size and was working off the old size. After some digging I found this page on how to get multipathd to notice the new size. I’ll summarise here. Read the rest of this entry »
