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