ken schrieb:
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:
Given with "VMware VM" you mean a virtual machine on an ESX(i) system and that the admin just increased the disk size for the VM, you will see the additional disk space using fdisk / cfdisk as unallocated space. Either increase your LVM or create a new partition.
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?
Depends much on the purpose of the additional space. Generally LVM makes it very easy to increase any of the existing LVMs / mountpoints.
Thanks much.
Alexander