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Ben Beuchler wrote:
> I found in the archives a reference to using this series of commands
> to grow a PV to fill a disk that has grown (in this case, a hardware
> RAID volume that has had disks added to it):

Current CVS has a pvresize command for this -- it's worked successfully 
for me on a live system, although I understand there are still potential 
issues with it not keeping the PV label and VG metadata in sync.

Zak.