On Mon, 02.02.04, Jens Hoffrichter <joho@hausboot.org> wrote: > Currently I have /dev/md0 as my only physical volume, but this will lead > to problems if I am going to expand the raid 5 by adding another 80 GB > harddrive to (as pvresize is not implemented again yet, as I understand). Unless I am mistaken, it is not even possible to expand /dev/md0 by adding another drive in the first place. And because linux software raid has no way of knowing which blocks are in use and which are not, i do not see how this could ever be possible. If you add another array (raid1 or raid5) as /dev/md1, you can vgextend your VG. cheers, Nils -- Nils Juergens | nils@muon.de | icq 7090774 Having problems sending big files over the net? Try out Efisto (http://efisto.rnbhq.org). _______________________________________________ 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/
