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From: Garrick Staples <garrick@usc.edu>
To: LVM general discussion and development <linux-lvm@redhat.com>
Cc: Wolfe.Jennifer@epamail.epa.gov
Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] question about physical disks with LVM
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2004 16:34:34 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040811233433.GA2136@polop.usc.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <OF4389A259.1F4C61A4-ON88256EEC.007B49FD-88256EEC.007BD660@epamail.epa.gov>

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On Tue, Aug 10, 2004 at 03:32:39PM -0700, Parker.Christine@epamail.epa.gov alleged:
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> 
> 
> 
> Hello.  I got your name from the LVM man page in Enterprise Linux.  I
> have a question about creating one filesystem
> on multiple physical volumes:  can the physical volumes be of different
> sizes?
> 
> Here's our situation:  We have a SAN setup here, and we currently have
> one filesystem that spans 10disks.
> We want to add 10 more disks (one DAE), but the new disks are larger
> than the old ones.  Will we be able to extend the old file
> system to include the new disks using LVM?  If not, can you suggest
> alternatives for us?

Yes, your can vgextend your VG to add the new larger drives.  Then you can
either create new LVs or lvextend an existing LV.


-- 
Garrick Staples, Linux/HPCC Administrator
University of Southern California

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Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-08-10 22:32 [linux-lvm] question about physical disks with LVM Parker.Christine
2004-08-11 23:34 ` Garrick Staples [this message]

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