Resizing an Online Multipath Device is one you tasks as a Unix/Linux Administrator. From Storage support you got an call or email that storage device with Lun ID X has been expanded from 100 to 200G.
Howo to make this visible in your system ? lets start with basic commands
#multipath -ll
oracle (0000000am7000000000000581) dm-6 IBM ,2145 size=100G features='1 queue_if_no_path' hwhandler='0' wp=rw |-+- policy='round-robin 0' prio=50 status=active | |- 2:0:1:3 sdr 65:16 active ready running | `- 1:0:1:3 sdq 65:0 active ready running `-+- policy='round-robin 0' prio=10 status=enabled |- 1:0:0:3 sdh 8:112 active ready running `- 2:0:0:3 sdg 8:96 active ready running
U see that oracle alias is 100Gb and have 4 disk devices sdr sdq sdh sdg
[root@]# fdisk -l /dev/sdr Disk /dev/sdr: 107.4 GB, 107374182400 bytes, 209715200 sectors Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 32768 bytes / 32768 bytes [root@ ~]# fdisk -l /dev/sdq Disk /dev/sdq: 107.4 GB, 107374182400 bytes, 209715200 sectors Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 32768 bytes / 32768 bytes [root@ ~]# fdisk -l /dev/sdh Disk /dev/sdh: 107.4 GB, 107374182400 bytes, 209715200 sectors Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 32768 bytes / 32768 bytes [root@ ~]# fdisk -l /dev/sdg Disk /dev/sdg: 107.4 GB, 107374182400 bytes, 209715200 sectors Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 32768 bytes / 32768 bytes
Rescan the disks to detect thew new sizesÂ
You do it like this
# echo 1 > /sys/block/sdr/device/rescan # echo 1 > /sys/block/sdq/device/rescan # echo 1 > /sys/block/sdh/device/rescan # echo 1 > /sys/block/sdg/device/rescan
Check the news size now
[root@~]# fdisk -l /dev/sdr Disk /dev/sdr: 214.7 GB, 214748364800 bytes, 419430400 sectors Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 32768 bytes / 32768 bytes [root@~]# fdisk -l /dev/sdq Disk /dev/sdq: 214.7 GB, 214748364800 bytes, 419430400 sectors Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 32768 bytes / 32768 bytes [root@~]# fdisk -l /dev/sdh Disk /dev/sdh: 214.7 GB, 214748364800 bytes, 419430400 sectors Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 32768 bytes / 32768 bytes [root@~]# fdisk -l /dev/sdg Disk /dev/sdg: 214.7 GB, 214748364800 bytes, 419430400 sectors Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 32768 bytes / 32768 bytes
You see that affected visible devices are now 200GB .
Resize the multipathszie
use this command
# multipath resize map oracle
Show multipath topology (maximum info) with command  multipath -ll
#systemctl reload multipathd #multipath -ll oracle (360050768018085dc7000000000000367) dm-6 IBM ,2145 size=200G features='1 queue_if_no_path' hwhandler='0' wp=rw |-+- policy='round-robin 0' prio=50 status=active | |- 1:0:1:3 sdq 65:0 active ready running | `- 2:0:1:3 sdr 65:16 active ready running `-+- policy='round-robin 0' prio=10 status=enabled |- 1:0:0:3 sdh 8:112 active ready running `- 2:0:0:3 sdg 8:96 active ready running
The new size is visible and 200GB
Resize the affected partition on the systemÂ
The  /dev/mapper/oracle is part of vg01 volume group
First resize the
]# df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/mapper/vg01-app 100G 74G 27G 74% /app /dev/mapper/vg00-tmp 2.0G 46M 2.0G 3% /tmp /dev/mapper/vg00-var 4.0G 1.8G 2.3G 45% /var /dev/mapper/vg00-home 1014M 282M 733M 28% /home
Resize the physical volume
# pvresize /dev/mapper/oracle Physical volume "/dev/mapper/oracle" changed 1 physical volume(s) resized / 0 physical volume(s) not resized
Or
#pvresize --setphysicalvolumesize 200G /dev/mapper/oracle
check pvdiplay if pv now 200GB
[root@~]# pvdisplay --- Physical volume --- PV Name /dev/mapper/oracle VG Name vg01 PV Size <200.00 GiB / not usable 3.00 MiB Allocatable yes PE Size 4.00 MiB Total PE 51199 Free PE 25600 Allocated PE 25599 PV UUID 0A141S-htsn-Y70k-PE90-IdJF-uJjn-Xm9ixF
Extend the Logical volume 100%
# lvextend -l +100%FREE /dev/mapper/vg01-app Size of logical volume vg01/app changed from <100.00 GiB (25599 extents) to <200.00 GiB (51199 extents). Logical volume vg01/app successfully resized.
Make this change permanent by adding the space to the mounted partition
Im using XFS file system . i will use xfs_growfs to  extend the partition
[root@~]# xfs_growfs /dev/mapper/vg01-app meta-data=/dev/mapper/vg01-app isize=256 agcount=16, agsize=1638336 blks = sectsz=512 attr=2, projid32bit=1 = crc=0 finobt=0 spinodes=0 data = bsize=4096 blocks=26213376, imaxpct=25 = sunit=0 swidth=0 blks naming =version 2 bsize=4096 ascii-ci=0 ftype=0 log =internal bsize=4096 blocks=12799, version=2 = sectsz=512 sunit=0 blks, lazy-count=1 realtime =none extsz=4096 blocks=0, rtextents=0 data blocks changed from 26213376 to 52427776
Check the new partition size and smill
[root@~]# df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/vg00-root 8.0G 1.9G 6.2G 23% /
devtmpfs 32G 0 32G 0% /dev
tmpfs 32G 641M 31G 2% /dev/shm
tmpfs 32G 2.8G 29G 9% /run
tmpfs 32G 0 32G 0% /sys/fs/cgroup
/dev/mapper/vg01-app 200G 74G 127G 37% /app
/
tmpfs 6.3G 0 6.3G 0% /run/user/996
tmpfs 6.3G 0 6.3G 0% /run/user/4000
tmpfs 6.3G 0 6.3G 0% /run/user/0
tmpfs 6.3G 0 6.3G 0% /run/user/61029
[root@su444p018 ~]#
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