OT:Linux question

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On Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 11:53:36AM -0500, after drawing runes in goat's blood,
Boaz Bezborodko cast forth these immortal, mystical words:
> While I risk angering Mark for an OT question on Linux, I trust you guys 
> the most on these issues.

My lord, man!  How -could- you?!?!?  :) :) :)

> I have a question regarding expanding storage on Linux.  I have an old 
> Proliant system running Centos 4 with a raid array.  I've replaced older 
> 73GB drives with 146GB drives and I wanted to extend the volume size.  
> The HP Array Cofiguration Utility is giving me a warning that some OSes 
> don't support "extending" the volume and that this might make the data 
> unavailable to them.
> 
> Will LVM on Centos 4 recognize this and be able to increase the volume?
> 
> If yes, should I dismount the volume before running the operation?

http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/extendlv.html
http://www.brighthub.com/computing/linux/articles/48452.aspx
http://www.softpanorama.org/Commercial_linuxes/logical_volume_manager.shtml

The last one covers RHEL4, which is largely the same codebase as CentOS 4,
except CentOS has RH's insane bugs removed.  :)

Funny, I thought everyone knew about Google by now...

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