LVM2 (Logical Volume Management) is pretty amazing, but when something goes wrong, it’s not easy to troubleshoot. This is not the fault of the tools, but a reflection that LVM is relatively new in Linux, and not widely understood.

What I Tried to Do

I tried to increase the size of a logical volume with the lvextend command:

lvextend --extents 100%FREE /dev/VolumeGroup1/var

This form of the command is supposed to use all of the free space in the volume group.