Logical Drive Extension in RHEL 3

[C. Linus Hicks]

On Wed, 2004-11-24 at 08:55 -0500, Joe Hood wrote:
> Would this be akin to Logical Volume Manager, which I've used with RHEL 3?
> 
Not if it's done by the array controller. If what you get as a result of
the automatic expansion or extension is that the OS sees a larger
physical disk, then it will be up to you to use that additional space,
either via LVM or by adding new partitions or resizing existing ones
(for example with resize2fs).
> 
> On Wed, 24 Nov 2004 09:47:05 +0000, Matthew Claridge
> <mclaridge at rwa-net.co.uk> wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Does anyone know if RHEL 3 supports logical drive extension? We have a
> > Proliant ML350 server which I'm about to install some new disks in - the
> > array controller will automatically expand or extend an array but
> > helpfully says "not all operating systems support logical drive
> > extension...blah blah blah...consult your os documentation". Red Hat's
> > documentation makes no mention of it and I can't find any references to
> > it on the web site either.....
> > 
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C. Linus Hicks <lhicks at nc.rr.com>