Quote from Moshe Sharon on 25/03/2024, 8:40 pm

Problem

User wants to add additional disk and new volume group with mount point

Solution

# Check for disks availability

pvs

# after located the new disks added to the virtual machine

# create volume group

vgcreate my_new_volume_group /dev/sdb /dev/sdc

#to add additional disk to the new_volume_group

vgextend my_new_volume_group /dev/sdc

#see if all the disks added properly

lvmdiskscan

# Create Logical volume
sudo lvcreate -l 100%FREE -n my_new_logical_volume  my_new_volume_group 

# format the new logical volume with xfs

mkfs.xfs /dev/my_new_volume_group/my_new_logical_volume

# Create directory and mount the new volume

sudo mkdir /mnt/my_new_directory

sudo mount /dev/my_new_volume_group/my_new_logical_volume /mnt/my_new_directory

# or in fstab to mount on startup

blkid

#/dev/mapper/my_new_logical_volume : UUID=”79813378-3538-4fc5-a6ba-02ca7034fd58″ TYPE=”xfs”

UUID=79813378-3538-4fc5-a6ba-02ca7034fd58     /mnt/my_new_directory  xfs    defaults,noauto 0   2