If you are a good little doobie, check with your san admin to see if you need to change your starting block alignment. If he looks at you funny, take everything the man says to you with a grain of salt for the rest of your life.
http://www.vmware.com/pdf/esx3_partition_align.pdf
Patrick
-----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces@centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of ken Sent: Friday, October 30, 2009 3:10 PM To: CentOS Mailing List Subject: [CentOS] adding SAN "diskspace" to CentOS system residing on VMware
Hey, group,
I've got a system installed on a VMware VM. The SAN administrator allocated me more disk space from the (EMC) SAN and I need ultimately to create another partition to mount on the filesystem. Two (initial) questions about this:
What steps do I need to take prior to creating a new partition with fdisk? (The SAN space, BTW, is connected through VMware.)
The OS is already residing on a logical volume. Is there any compelling reason to bringing the new partition into lvm (aside from the ease of resizing it... something I don't anticipate us doing)? Or should I simply create an ext3 partition and mount that?
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