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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Hello all.</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">I have an issue, that I am not sure how to address.</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">How can I resize the physical volume if I change the geometry of the disk (non-destructive resize of RAID volume at the hardware level) </FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">I can see that the OS has picked up the new size of the disk and I would like to resize the existing pv. I don't know how.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">I started with a hardware raid 5 (400GB), linux automatically recognizes disk as /dev/sdb</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">a simplistic representation of the setup is as follows</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">pvcreate /dev/sdb</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">vgcreate VolGroup10 /dev/sdb</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">lvcreate -n LogVol10 VolGroup10</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">mkfs.ext3 /dev/mapper/VolGroup10-LogVol10</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">I have added a disk and expand the array to 600GB I can still see every thing but I don't know how to extend the PV.</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">filesystems OK</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">logical volumes OK</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">volume groups OK</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">linux sees /dev/sdb as 600GB</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">pvs shows pv /dev/sdb is 400GB. I wish to, non-destructively, reinitialize /dev/sdb so that pvs shows 600GB. how?</FONT>
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<P><B><FONT COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial">William T. Musil</FONT></B>
<BR><FONT COLOR="#000000" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Manager, Technical Services</FONT>
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