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" 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 > rest of > y

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 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 create an ext3 partit

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 > &g

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 creat

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 mea

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 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 ___ CentOS ma

[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 pa