Re: LUN resizing

[Stefan Voelkel <Stefan.Voelkel@millenux.com>]

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On Wed, 2003-11-26 at 10:48, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 10:45:11AM +0100, Stefan Voelkel wrote:
> >       * a way to force the scsi stack to send out a read_capacity and
> >         act on it (perhaps another /sys/ entry?), perhaps a hotplug
> >         event that creates a new partition table, eg add the new space
> >         as "unused" at the end of the device, write that table and
> >         ioctl() to reread it.
> >       * a way to fiddle around with live partitions,  a userspace tool
> >         with a way to tell the kernel supsend/reactivate io on that
> >         block device. it would have to take care of the filesystems
> >         residing on the device.
> 
> No way.  You're better of using a proper volume manager instead of doing
> this paritioning mess.

True, let's forget about the partitions: mount /dev/sda /home. 
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