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On Sat, Jul 09, 2005 at 11:35:19AM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote:
> Hmm, why is this tricky?

The device size is stored in two places, the format2 label
as well as the VG metadata, and there's no interface for
updating the first (atomically/recoverably remember) once 
the PV is part of a VG.

Alasdair
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