On Tue, 2006-10-17 at 08:11 +0200, Christian Wahlgren wrote: > On 10/16/06, Shawn K. O'Shea <shawn at ll.mit.edu> wrote: > > > > > I did a RAID migration on a 3Ware 9590SE-12, so that an exported disk > > > grew from 700GB to 1400GB. The exported disk is managed by LVM. The > > > problem now is that I don't really know what to do now to let LVM and > > > my locigal volume to make use of this new disk size, and probably > > > future disk size growth. > > > > > I've been doing this recently with VMWare ESX server. To save space, I > > create base disk images of clean OS installs on a minimalistic sized > > disk. If I need space, I use tools from VMWare to make the virtual disk > > bigger, and then grow the bits inside Linux with LVM. > > (...) (thanks for the links!) > > > To summarize the links...(usual caveats, backup data, etc, etc) > > -Create a new partition of type 8e (Linux LVM) on the new empty space. > > > > -Add that pv to LVM > > If the new partition is /dev/sda3, then this would look like > > pvcreate /dev/sda3 > > This part is actually the main question I had (in the Subject) - each > time I add a disk to my RAID-5 volume on the RAID card, the exported > disk is getting bigger. And every time I do this I have to add a > partition on this disk to use this new space. With primary partitions > I can only repeat this 4 times. > > So, is it the "proper way of doing this" when you grow this exported > disk, to add partitions in a extended partition table each time you > add a disk, and then add that PV partition to the VG, resize LVs etc? > Compare to when you add a physical disk "directly" to a VG, you only > create one partition on each new disk and then let your VG and LV to > grow. This other situation with a RAID card you make one exported disk > larger each time you add one or more physical disks to the RAID volume > and then have to add a new partition on the same (emulated) disk (to > the BIOS and operating system). > I have never tried this ... however, you can extend the size of a partition with fdisk by removing partition and starting it on exactly the same cylinder that it started before and ending at a larger cylinder. (Please test this on a partition that you can afford to lose :) I don't know how (or if) that effects the pv size that was assigned that partition, but I do know that the file system stays the old size and needs to be extended if it is non pv. Here is something else I see ... http://episteme.arstechnica.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/96509133/m/839007490831 (that is not what I recommended, but something I found on google) -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20061017/6d51dd1d/attachment-0004.sig>