Re: [CentOS] adding SAN diskspace to CentOS system residing on VMware

2009-11-02 Thread Flaherty, 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

Re: [CentOS] adding SAN diskspace to CentOS system residing on VMware

2009-11-02 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 2:10 PM, ken geb...@mousecar.com wrote: [snip] 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

Re: [CentOS] adding SAN diskspace to CentOS system residing on VMware

2009-11-02 Thread Ross Walker
On Nov 2, 2009, at 10:15 AM, Flaherty, Patrick pflahe...@wsi.com wrote: 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

[CentOS] adding SAN diskspace to CentOS system residing on VMware

2009-10-30 Thread ken
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

Re: [CentOS] adding SAN diskspace to CentOS system residing on VMware

2009-10-30 Thread Jon Moore
On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 2:10 PM, ken geb...@mousecar.com wrote: Hey, group, Hi. What steps do I need to take prior to creating a new partition with fdisk?  (The SAN space, BTW, is connected through VMware.) How's the storage being exported? -jonathan

Re: [CentOS] adding SAN diskspace to CentOS system residing on VMware

2009-10-30 Thread Alexander Dalloz
ken schrieb: 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: Given with VMware VM you mean a

Re: [CentOS] adding SAN diskspace to CentOS system residing on VMware

2009-10-30 Thread James A. Peltier
On Fri, 30 Oct 2009, Alexander Dalloz wrote: Given with VMware VM you mean a virtual machine on an ESX(i) system and that the admin just increased the disk size for the VM, you will see the additional disk space using fdisk / cfdisk as unallocated space. Either increase your LVM or create a