From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mx1.redhat.com (ext-mx02.extmail.prod.ext.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.110.6]) by int-mx03.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id o4JH7euS027712 for ; Wed, 19 May 2010 13:07:40 -0400 Received: from mail-gx0-f216.google.com (mail-gx0-f216.google.com [209.85.217.216]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id o4JH7Tnw025305 for ; Wed, 19 May 2010 13:07:29 -0400 Received: by gxk8 with SMTP id 8so4205623gxk.9 for ; Wed, 19 May 2010 10:07:28 -0700 (PDT) From: "kevin" References: <059801caf769$fc848350$f58d89f0$@com> <4BF40A8B.2000201@alteeve.com> <20100519162601.GA18162@us.ibm.com> <05c901caf771$a3161920$e9424b60$@com> <4BF41884.4080000@alteeve.com> In-Reply-To: <4BF41884.4080000@alteeve.com> Date: Wed, 19 May 2010 13:07:17 -0400 Message-ID: <05cf01caf775$bdf90b90$39eb22b0$@com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Language: en-us Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] Adding a disk to expand an existing logical volume 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" To: 'LVM general discussion and development' > 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