From: "kevin" <k@kevinkevin.com>
To: 'LVM general discussion and development' <linux-lvm@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] Adding a disk to expand an existing logical volume
Date: Wed, 19 May 2010 13:07:17 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <05cf01caf775$bdf90b90$39eb22b0$@com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4BF41884.4080000@alteeve.com>
> I would only recommend this if the drive is permanently attached to your
> server. If there is any possibility of it getting moved to another
system,
> especially another OS, it is likely to appear "unformatted" and the other
> OS will offer to create a partition table, etc, destroying the data.
> The partition table, although otherwise useless for LVM (and a pain when
> trying to align PPs to some lower lever boundary), does serve the purpose
> of telling other PC operating systems that there is something there.
This drive is to be permanently attached to the system so I don't think I
need to worry about marking it as 8e in fdisk. Thanks all for your help.
This clarifies a lot of things for me.
~k
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-05-19 17:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-05-19 15:43 [linux-lvm] Adding a disk to expand an existing logical volume kevin
2010-05-19 15:58 ` Digimer
2010-05-19 16:09 ` kevin
2010-05-19 16:28 ` Digimer
2010-05-19 16:24 ` Michael Guntsche
2010-05-19 22:28 ` Ron Johnson
2010-05-20 5:24 ` Luca Berra
2010-05-20 11:21 ` Bryn M. Reeves
2010-05-19 16:26 ` Malahal Naineni
2010-05-19 16:37 ` kevin
2010-05-19 16:46 ` Digimer
2010-05-19 17:05 ` Bryn M. Reeves
2010-05-19 16:51 ` Stuart D. Gathman
2010-05-19 16:57 ` Digimer
2010-05-19 17:07 ` kevin [this message]
2010-05-19 17:09 ` kevin
2010-05-19 17:28 ` Richard Shaw
2010-05-19 17:35 ` Ray Morris
2010-05-19 18:25 ` Digimer
2010-05-19 17:23 ` Ray Morris
2010-05-19 19:34 ` Stuart D. Gathman
2010-05-28 23:16 ` Ray Morris
2010-05-19 17:03 ` Bryn M. Reeves
2010-05-19 15:58 ` Richard Jerrido
2010-05-19 16:12 ` kevin
2010-05-19 16:46 ` Stuart D. Gathman
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