[dm-devel] Online disk size change and Linux
Mike Anderson
andmike at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Tue Jan 19 16:13:13 UTC 2010
Daniel Olops <daniel at olops.eti.br> wrote:
> Sorry if this is off-topic... but if anyone could help, it'd be good.
>
> Is Linux (more specifically Red Hat EL 5.4) able to recognize _disk_ size
> changes online? We have some HP servers with QLogic HBAs connected to an
> EVA 4000 Storage, with multipathing properly set up. These disks can be
> resized online, but only after a reboot that RHEL recognizes the change.
> I've been trying to find any information about it, but to no avail.
>
The steps listed at the urls below are manual steps to resize. Do the
steps listed at either of the urls below address your needs?
http://www.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/5.4/html/DM_Multipath/MPIO_admin-troubleshoot.html#online_device_resize
http://www.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/html/Online_Storage_Reconfiguration_Guide/index.html
-andmike
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