On Thu, Jun 12, 2003 at 05:29:45PM -0700, Matt E wrote: > Hello! > > I'm going to be adding a RAID 5 setup to my system, > but I need to get all the data off my disks that are > currently installed and put on to the new raid array. > Once this is done, I'll take one of the disks that is > currently in my system and add it to the RAID array. > > I'm going to run LVM ontop of this RAID array. The > raid tools package has a tool "raidreconf" that will > allow me to add another disk to the array without > destroying the data on it. > > Once this is done, I'd want to use this extra space in > LVM. However, I can't pvcreate /dev/md0 again, > beacuse I will already have an LVM setup on it. Is > there anyway to let LVM know that /dev/md0 has grown, > so I could then use this extra space in VGs? Use LVM2, pvcreate md0 after it has grown (which gives you a PV with the new size) and vgcfgrestore the LVM metadata to it. > > Anyone know anything about this? > > Cheers! > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Calendar - Free online calendar with sync to Outlook(TM). > http://calendar.yahoo.com > > _______________________________________________ > linux-lvm mailing list > linux-lvm@sistina.com > http://lists.sistina.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm > read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/ -- Regards, Heinz -- The LVM Guy -- *** Software bugs are stupid. Nevertheless it needs not so stupid people to solve them *** =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Heinz Mauelshagen Sistina Software Inc. Senior Consultant/Developer Am Sonnenhang 11 56242 Marienrachdorf Germany Mauelshagen@Sistina.com +49 2626 141200 FAX 924446 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- _______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list linux-lvm@sistina.com http://lists.sistina.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/
