Resizing a partition used by LVM

[Felipe Alfaro Solana]

> I'm struggling to find any information on this. I've resize  my physical
> volume and now I want to resize the partition that it is in. However,
> gparted won't do it; the move/resize option is greyed out for partitions
> of type LVM. I've tried it by booting from the Ubuntu desktop CD.
>
> Any suggestions? Has anyone actually done this successfully and if so
> how did you do it?

If you're using ext2/ext3, you can use ext2online to extend your
filesystem online (without having to unmount it) or you can use
resize2fs to shrink or extend it offline (the filesystem must be
unmounted).