[linux-lvm] RAID extension and lvm

[Goetz Bock]

While I was instructed to answer RTFM more often, here you go ...

On Fri, Jul 12 '02 at 16:16, Ralf Eisinger wrote:
> - when I "start" a snaptshot, where is lvm using the disk space, which is
>   needed to track down the changes user will made during that time?
it allocates free PEs from the underlying VG

> - Can lvm handle the changing of a disk size? (In our case, lvm will not
>   recognize, that a disk is added, because the RAID-System offers the
>   complete disk space as one big disk, so it seems (from the sight of
>   lvm), that the disk size increases)
you can extend a PV (man pvresize)

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