If you are a good little doobie, check with your san admin to see if you need to change your starting block alignment. If he looks at you funny, take everything the man says to you with a grain of salt for the rest of your life.
http://www.vmware.com/pdf/esx3_partition_align.pdf Patrick > -----Original Message----- > From: centos-boun...@centos.org > [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of ken > Sent: Friday, October 30, 2009 3:10 PM > To: CentOS Mailing List > Subject: [CentOS] adding SAN "diskspace" to CentOS system > residing on VMware > > Hey, group, > > I've got a system installed on a VMware VM. The SAN > administrator allocated me more disk space from the (EMC) SAN > and I need ultimately to create another partition to mount on > the filesystem. Two (initial) questions about this: > > What steps do I need to take prior to creating a new > partition with fdisk? (The SAN space, BTW, is connected > through VMware.) > > The OS is already residing on a logical volume. Is there any > compelling reason to bringing the new partition into lvm > (aside from the ease of resizing it... something I don't > anticipate us doing)? Or should I simply create an ext3 > partition and mount that? > > Thanks much. > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS@centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
