On 14/01/07, Ambrogio <fn050202@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Il giorno gio, 11/01/2007 alle 21.04 +0100, Markus Lindholm ha scritto: > A question: if I had used pvcreate on the whole disk in the first > place could I now have used pvresize to take the free space into use > without creating a new partition? No, because using pvcreate on the wole disk doesn't leave free space on disk. The only way in which pvresize is usefull is when you do, for example, a dd of the entire disk to a bigger one.
Yes, but the situation I had was a HARDWARE RAID 5 to which I just had added two disks (totalling six disks), so the disk presented by the RAID controller to the OS had actually grown in size. So if I had used pvcreate on the whole disk instead of a partition containing the whole disk (at that time) when I setup the RAID5, then I could have now used pvresize to take the added size in use. Well, that's at least how I understand it, feel free to correct me if I'm wrong. /markus
