Now, when it comes to events in Canada, British Columbia where I live often gets the shaft. Our Fan Expo isn’t even compatible to Toronto’s and our yearly exhibition, the PNE is also not even comparable in size and scope to Ontario. However, I do still love the PNE and one other even they have yearly is Fright Nights! A collection of haunted houses, a freak show and lot of different carnival rides.
While I wish that I still had my original iPhone, I did keep and still do, keep all of the boxes. The picture represents the iPhone 3GS to the latest, iPhone 11 Pro Max. Yes, I upgrade every year and have always been happy about doing so.
So do we pass the ghosts that haunt us later in our lives; they sit undramatically by the roadside like poor beggars, and we see them only from the corners of our eyes, if we see them at all. The idea that they have been waiting there for us rarely crosses our minds. Yet they do wait, and when we have passed, they gather up their bundles of memory and fall in behind, treading in our footsteps and catching up, little by little.
— Stephen King
Many years ago now stumbling across this information was very useful to me. I figure now that unless it’s passed on again, with my own additional notes, how is the next person going to find it?
One of the great things about installing Linux with LVM (Logical Volume Manager) is that it is ridiculously easy to increase space on a virtual machine. On the platform of your choice add an additional HDD to the virtual machine and then follow these steps:
First, you need to be sure the system sees the new HDD that has been added. In this example, it is /dev/sdb.
fdisk -l Disk /dev/sda: 42.9 GB, 42949672960 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 5221 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 1 666 5345248+ 83 Linux Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary. /dev/sda2 666 5222 36596736 8e Linux LVM
Now that we know /dev/sdb has been found and is the size we expect:
pvcreate /dev/sdb Writing physical volume data to disk "/dev/sdb1" Physical volume "/dev/sdb1" successfully created
Use the vgs command find out the name of your volume group and then extend it to /dev/sdb:
vgs VG #PV #LV #SN Attr VSize VFree vg00 3 10 0 wz--n- 113.91g 34.97g vgextend vg00 /dev/sdb Volume group "vg00" successfully extended
Going down the line the next one up is to extend the logical volume:
lvs LV VG Attr LSize Origin Snap% Move Log Copy% Convert LogVol00 vg00 -wi-ao 29.06G LogVol01 vg00 -wi-ao 5.81G lvextend -l +100%FREE /dev/vg00/LogVol00vg Extending logical volume LogVol00 to 49.03 GB Logical volume LogVol00 successfully resized
Make sure that it sees all the space properly:
lvs LV VG Attr LSize Origin Snap% Move Log Copy% Convert LogVol00 vg00 -wi-ao 49.03G LogVol01 vg00 -wi-ao 5.81G
Now we need to extend the actual filesystem itself and which path you choose depends if your running RHEL/CentOS 6.x or 7.x
For 6.x you would run:
resize2fs /dev/mapper/LogVol-vg00
For 6.x you would run:
xfs_growfx /dev/mapper/LogVol-vg00
This part can take a few seconds, minutes or longer depending upon the size you are undertaking and activity on the server. Again, if this is a highly active server you are going to need a maintenance window, do not try this during the day.
Nobody gives a shit about your data except you. Plan accordingly.
– Anonymous
Words to live by. Backup your files!
The Tattoo is finally complete! As stated previously I had very high expectations for this and the final result is far better than I thought was possible. I don’t regret it in the least (a good thing, considering) and am glad I finally got off my duff and had it done.
Had my second session getting my first tattoo and as you can see its a doozy to start with. I need one more visit for the edges to be finished up and then the first one will be finished. I say the first one because I already have an idea for a second one. That wont be until much later this year or next year as I have other pending expenses.
The tattoo was designed and done by David Phelps from Adrenaline Tattoo in Downtown Vancouver, BC, Canada.
