From: "Bryn M. Reeves" <bmr@redhat.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: Thu, 20 May 2010 12:21:33 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4BF51B3D.5010005@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4BF4660C.60307@cox.net>
On 05/19/2010 11:28 PM, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On 05/19/2010 11:24 AM, Michael Guntsche wrote:
>> On 2010.05.19 11:58:03 , Digimer wrote:
>>> On 10-05-19 11:43 AM, kevin wrote:
>>>> Howdy,
>>>>
>>>> (fdisk+mkfs+pvcreate+vgextend+lvextend) is the right way to go about adding
>>>
>>> The mkfs isn't supposed to be there, just set the new drive's
>>> partition to type '8e' (Linux LVM).
>> Or use the full device without any partition at all.
>>
>
> I wonder if this will have any adverse affects on drives with 4KB
> sectors?
>
Not really, if anything it simplifies getting correct alignment for the
data region of the PV.
Regards,
Bryn.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-05-20 11:21 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 [this message]
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
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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