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Fedora 11
HP MSA60 attached to p800 controller.
Shelf had 8-750 GB drives in it for starters using RAID 6. Used LVM to create a VG.
All of that is working fine.
I added 4 more 750GB drives to the shelf. I used the hpacucli to expand the RAID array and everything is fine as far as the MSA60 and controller are concerned - it shows a nice 6.8TB array.
in Fedora, an fdisk -l /dev/cciss/c0d0 (the msa) shows this:
[root@vs02 ~]# fdisk -l /dev/cciss/c0d0
WARNING: GPT (GUID Partition Table) detected on '/dev/cciss/c0d0'! The util fdisk doesn't support GPT. Use GNU Parted.
Disk /dev/cciss/c0d0: 7501.2 GB, 7501224730624 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 911971 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000000
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/cciss/c0d0p1 1 1 16+ ee GPT
/dev/cciss/c0d0p2 * 1 267350 2147483647+ 8e Linux LVM
lvdisplay -m shows this (for the relevant volume group):
--- Logical volume ---
LV Name /dev/VolGroup01/LogVol00
VG Name VolGroup01
LV UUID WdHpL0-BF93-Efxs-Kn8d-CxMS
LV Write Access read/write
LV Status available
# open 1
LV Size 4.09 TB
Current LE 134131
Segments 1
Allocation inherit
Read ahead sectors auto
- currently set to 256
Block device 253:2
--- Segments ---
Logical extent 0 to 134130:
Type linear
Physical volume /dev/cciss/c0d0p1
Physical extents 0 to 134130
vgdisplay shows this:
--- Volume group ---
VG Name VolGroup01
System ID
Format lvm2
Metadata Areas 1
Metadata Sequence No 2
VG Access read/write
VG Status resizable
MAX LV 0
Cur LV 1
Open LV 1
Max PV 0
Cur PV 1
Act PV 1
VG Size 4.09 TB
PE Size 32.00 MB
Total PE 134132
Alloc PE / Size 134131 / 4.09 TB
Free PE / Size 1 / 32.00 MB
VG UUID 6S1bpq-aw8j-nkJi-qex2-jQ7Q
So basically, the system sees that there is a ~7.3TB disk that the current LV / VG resides on, though it's pointing to a weird GPT partition... not sure what that's all about...
Anyway, the total size of this array is actually 6.8TB, here's the output in the HP ACU cli utility of show config:
=> ctrl slot=6 show config
Smart Array P800 in Slot 6 (sn: P98690G9SV50EX)
array A (SATA, Unused Space: 0 MB)
logicaldrive 1 (6.8 TB, RAID 6 (ADG), OK)
physicaldrive 2E:1:1 (port 2E:box 1:bay 1, SATA, 750 GB, OK)
physicaldrive 2E:1:2 (port 2E:box 1:bay 2, SATA, 750 GB, OK)
physicaldrive 2E:1:3 (port 2E:box 1:bay 3, SATA, 750 GB, OK)
physicaldrive 2E:1:4 (port 2E:box 1:bay 4, SATA, 750 GB, OK)
physicaldrive 2E:1:5 (port 2E:box 1:bay 5, SATA, 750 GB, OK)
physicaldrive 2E:1:6 (port 2E:box 1:bay 6, SATA, 750 GB, OK)
physicaldrive 2E:1:7 (port 2E:box 1:bay 7, SATA, 750 GB, OK)
physicaldrive 2E:1:8 (port 2E:box 1:bay 8, SATA, 750 GB, OK)
physicaldrive 2E:1:9 (port 2E:box 1:bay 9, SATA, 750 GB, OK)
physicaldrive 2E:1:10 (port 2E:box 1:bay 10, SATA, 750 GB, OK)
physicaldrive 2E:1:11 (port 2E:box 1:bay 11, SATA, 750 GB, OK)
physicaldrive 2E:1:12 (port 2E:box 1:bay 12, SATA, 750 GB, OK)
Now all I want to do is expand my VG / LV to include the space from the 4 drives I just added... but i can't seem to find a way to do this. Can anyone help??
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