adding space to a physical volume??

[Mark Roach]

On Fri, 2005-07-15 at 23:31 +0500, Mustafa Abbasi wrote:
> i added a new partition to a logical volume.
> first i did pvcreate on the partition.
> then vgextend 
> then lvextend
> but for some reason when i check system monitor it still shows the
> space before i added the physical volume.
> what am i doing wrong.

The file system still needs to be expanded. How to do so depends on what
type of filesystem you are using, but assuming ext2/3, you will want to
use 'resize2fs /dev/mapper/vgname-lvname'

-Mark