On Thursday 12 April 2007, Ed Greshko wrote: >Gene Heskett wrote: >> Rant mode on here Ed. > >Thanks for the the warning. After reading your whole message I would never >had thought you were ranting. :-) Your sense of humor is showing. Thanks. :) >> Not permanently. I was able to use fdisk and add a 4th partition to >> account for the rest of the drive after I was done. That's why I asked >> the question about adding it to the LVM setup for real use, but no one has >> offered any how to on that, not yet anyway. > >With respect for LVM I'll have to admit that I've become lazy. I'd not used >it before and I decided to invoke it this past weekend when setting up RAID >and putting in additional storage on my RHELv4 system. So, I took a short >cut and used a GUI instead of the CLI. Shame on me. > >Anyway, if you use the GUI does it detect the additional space and can it be >initialized for LVM usage? > I believe it did. At least it went through the motions of merging it into the existing /dev/hda3. But, the lower graphic shows hda4 on the left end, where common sense says it should be on the right end, at least in my view. And, although I initialized it, the total size of that volume is still shown as 149GB, when it should now be about 186GB. Maybe it takes a reboot? I dunno. >So as not to let the rest of your words go to waste....yes Amiga was may >Amigo too a while back. :) -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) "We want to create puppets that pull their own strings." -- Ann Marion "Would this make them Marionettes?" -- Jeff Daiell
