In Oracle Linux 5.11 I have disk /dev/sdb of 160 GB where the LVM partition type 8e (/dev/sdb1) include the whole disk.
/dev/sdb is VMware virtual disk and /dev/sdb1 is LVM physical volume, now I need to increase /dev/sdb1 size without reboot.
I followed these steps:
i increased Vmware virtual disk size to 200 GB and I run fdisk to delete /dev/sdb1 and to recreate /dev/sdb1 partition with the first and the last available cylinder. I change partition to 8e type.
I saved changes in fdisk.
I have to take effects with no reboot because machine is working so I tried to run partbrobe, "echo 1 > /sys/class/scsi_device/x:x:x:x/device/rescan", hdparm ... , partx
Fstab show right dimension.
I run pvresize /dev/sdb1 but my physical volume continue to be the old size.
Suggestions please?