From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mx3.redhat.com (mx3.redhat.com [172.16.48.32]) by int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id m3LA4Yvm019200 for ; Mon, 21 Apr 2008 06:04:34 -0400 Received: from smtp04.atlngahp.sys.nuvox.net (smtp-out4.atlngahp.sys.nuvox.net [70.43.63.22]) by mx3.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m3LA4Mt4021297 for ; Mon, 21 Apr 2008 06:04:23 -0400 Received: from smtp.media-brokers.com (70.43.81.99.nw.nuvox.net [70.43.81.99]) by smtp04.atlngahp.sys.nuvox.net (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id m3LA4IdC025334 for ; Mon, 21 Apr 2008 06:04:18 -0400 Received: from [192.168.1.110] (sjester.atl.media-brokers.com [192.168.1.110]) by smtp.media-brokers.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 35E51375052 for ; Mon, 21 Apr 2008 06:04:18 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <480C66A1.9030909@Media-Brokers.com> Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2008 06:04:17 -0400 From: Charles Marcus MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] Adding PVs to a group References: <48091663.2070404@Media-Brokers.com> <480A3291.7070702@Media-Brokers.com> <480AB63C.4070605@gmail.com> <480B728C.9010708@Media-Brokers.com> <480BC65A.1080605@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <480BC65A.1080605@gmail.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Reply-To: LVM general discussion and development List-Id: LVM general discussion and development List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: LVM general discussion and development On 4/20/2008, David Robinson (zxvdr.au@gmail.com) wrote: >> OT: this list seems a little on the dead side... is there a more >> active LVM oriented list that you are aware of? > The list is active, but its quiet on weekends ;) Oh, right, I forget that some people actually have lives outside work, unlike me... ;) > You could modify the partition table in one step rather than two. Use > fdisk to delete both partitions then create a new partition that > spans the entire device (just make sure that you create the partition > with the same start block). The end result should look something like: > > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System > /dev/sdb1 1 58352 468712408+ 8e Linux LVM I have read about doing this, but somehow it just gives me the shudders... I'll have to play with it sometime in a VM... >> resize /dev/sdb1, reboot, then > You may not need to reboot at all... you could use "partprobe" or > "blockdev --rereadpt", but check /proc/partitions to make sure that > the kernel knows of the new partition table. I've seen instances > where partprobe doesn't actually cause the partition table to be > refreshed. Thanks - have to read up on partprobe too... Still feel like a newbie sometimes, even though I've been using Linux for almost two years now (came over from the windows world)... >> So, again - does it really matter? Is having my vg2 in one big LVM >> partition 'better' than having it consist of two different partitions? > There's no difference, LVM doesn't care. Ok, thanks... thats what I'll do for now... I'm actually planning on replacing this server with a different one and rebuilding everything from scratch in a few months anyway, so I'll redo the partitions then... For now, simple and safe is best... my main goal is to keep /var from filling up... -- Best regards, Charles