Dan White wrote: > ----- James Hawtin <oolon@ankh.org> wrote: > > I had to reboot the machine to "see" the expanded LUN. I used fdisk > to make a partition out of the LUN expansion, but I had to reboot > again before I could do anything further. After the second reboot, > I was able to make a PV out of the new partition, roll it into the > existing VG and then expand the two test LV's I had previously > created to utilize the new elbow room. > > This is on a RHEL 5.7 system. > > Is there a way to do this without the rebooting ? I don't know about the first reboot(not a SAN/LUN user), but I would expect the second reboot could be avoided by running partprobe. -- Galen Seitz galens@seitzassoc.com _______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list linux-lvm@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/