linux - resize a volume

I would like to increase lv_home to 20G and increase lv_root to 120G. In VMware I extended the harddrive to 200G. You can see that below in .host:/

Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/VolGroup-lv_root
                       48G   31G   15G  68% /
tmpfs                 3.1G  100K  3.1G   1% /dev/shm
/dev/sda1             485M   81M  379M  18% /boot
/dev/mapper/VolGroup-lv_home
                      4.6G  198M  4.2G   5% /home
.host:/               239G  110G  130G  46% /mnt/hgfs

I tried to run

resize2fs /dev/mapper/VolGroup-lv_home 20G

But it didn't work

I tried to run

lvextend -L 120G /dev/mapper/VolGroup-lv_root

But it didn't work

any ideas of how to add the space from .host over to lv_home?

From what I can see from your LVS command, your LVM partition is only 54.1 gigs, all of which is allocated.

Am I correct in understanding that this is actually a VM, and you expanded the size of the physical disk on the VM to 200 GIGS ? If that is the case you need to first grow the PV, then the VG, then the LVs. (PV=Physical Volume, VG=Volume Group, LV=Logical Volume)

I've not tried these commands (so back up, your data is at risk !!!), but try the following -

1. Create a new partition with the free space (for example, use FDISK and create sda2 - if that does not work, please please show me the result of "fdisk -l /dev/sda")

2. Assuming the new partition is sda3 [ i'm guessing here, you might have a swap ] do the following

3. Create a new Physical Volume using sda3

pvcreate /dev/sda3  

1. Add the new partition to your volume group

vgextend Volgroup /dev/sda3

1. Expand your partition

lvextend -L 120G /dev/mapper/VolGroup-lv_root

1. Resize the partition

resize2fs /dev/mapper/VolGroup-lv_root

Note that these commands are untested and will probably need a bit of tweeking.

Also, an alternative to the pvcreate and lvextend command would be to resize /dev/sda1 (if thats an option with Fdisk) and then grow the physical volume.