firstly... it is really hard to help you, because you don't post the
actual output of the tools/commands that you've used, or of things
like cat /proc/scsi/scsi.
eg, it's still not clear whether linux sees megaraid devices as SCSI
disks or not. whether the extra space was added to an existing disk or
whether it has appeared as a new disk.
On 24 Jul 2001, Mark Kilmartin wrote:
> As for being able to add a drive to an existing array. I can add
> the drive and use the Cards config util to grow the array
> nondestructively. But to get Linux to see there is more space on
> the drive requires a reboot.
yep.
(unless you can unmount everything and the megaraid driver is a
module. what does lsmod say?)
> I then simply make a new partition in this now free space and add
> that partition to a LVM Volume Group. (GNUparted doesn't support
> growing LVM partitions yet. This method works fine but I would
> love to avoid the reboot.
you probably need the reboot to see the extra space.
however, why do you want to grow an LVM partition???? even if you
could, there is no way to tell LVM that PV has increased in size.
Instead... make a new LVM PV partition out of the extra space. (ie do
not repartition - just add a new one on the extra space). Then
pvcreate and vgextend to add this new PV to your VG.
> This would remove another reason for having to reboot this particular
> server.
>> MArk
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