Unix Revolution

Red Hat 5.6 running on VMware vSphere. Grab a snapshot before messing with any of this. This procedure is slightly different if you are messing with /dev/sda (if that's where your / is) # Determine what VGs are assigned to the disk you are messing with... #   in this case... /dev/sdb for PART in `fdisk -l /dev/sdb | grep ^/dev | awk '{ print $1 }'`; do pvdisplay $PART | grep VG\ Name | awk '{ print $3 }' | sort -u; done vg_test # Figure out what volumes are mounted on that VG df -h | grep SCOREDATA umount /SCORE_Data lvchange -a n /dev/SCOREDATA/SCORE_Data vgchange -a n SCOREDATA blockdev --rereadpt /dev/sdb fdisk -u /dev/sdb # n p 2 t 8e w partprobe /dev/sdb blockdev --rereadpt /dev/sdb fdisk -l /dev/sdb vgchange -a y SCOREDATA mount -a pvcreate /dev/sdb2 vgcreate SCOREARCH /dev/sdb2 FREEPE=`pvdisplay /dev/sdb2 | grep Free\ PE | awk '{ print $3 }'` echo $FREEPE lvcreate -l+${FREEPE} -nSCORE_Archive SCOREARCH mkfs /dev/SCOREARC...