Quoting "Smithies, Russell" Russell.Smithies@agresearch.co.nz:
Perhaps I'm doing it wrong then.
1). In Vmware, extend the existing disk by changing the provisioned size in the vSphere client. 2). In Centos, create an additional partition with fdisk, 3). Somehow reread the partition table without rebooting?? 4). pvcreate 5). vgextend 6). lvextend 7). resize2fs
What I find is that without a reboot, the OS doesn't see the partition so can't pvcreate etc.
--Russell
-----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces@centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of Reindl Harald Sent: Friday, 18 November 2011 10:48 a.m. To: centos@centos.org Subject: Re: [CentOS] not using LVM for Linux VM guests?
Am 17.11.2011 22:36, schrieb Smithies, Russell:
Tried that, as well as rescanning the scsi bus, Everything I've tried returns a warning about kernel unable to reread partition table and requiring a reboot to see any modifications.
gparted does tell you this since years after modify but i have never in my
life
rebooted a linux system because partition changes
Step 3 .. run partprobe.