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Is your raid metadevice overplayed with LVM?<br />
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Could you post<br />
fdisk -l<br />
cat /proc/mdstat<br />
Lvdisckscan<br />
Pvdisplay<br />
Vgdisplay<br />
Lvdisplay
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Is your raid metadevice overplayed with LVM?

Could you post
fdisk -l
cat /proc/mdstat
Lvdisckscan
Pvdisplay
Vgdisplay
Lvdisplay

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I have a box that I configured to use MD RAID during the install process for the OS and boot drive. It's this weird /dev/md0p# structure that confuses me.<br />
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The installer produced /dev/md0p1 (/boot), /dev/md0p2 (/var/lib/mysql), /dev/md0p3 (/), /dev/md0p4 (extended), /dev/md0p5 (swap). I noticed it did this for all physically installed machines from the CentOS 6 DVD.<br />
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How do I increase the size of the /dev/md0p3? I need this root partition to be expanded. I feel like I need to delete the /dev/md0p3, /dev/md0p4, /dev/md0p5 partitions and then create a new one for /dev/md0p3 with the extra space. I don't care for p4 and p5, because they don't contain actual data. I can create them after the fact.<br />
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I am confused on the order of deleting partitions and adding the space in respect to /dev/md0. fdisk -l shows the drives /dev/sda, /dev/sdb and then finally /dev/md0 with all of the sub partitions.
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I have a box that I configured to use MD RAID during the install process for the OS and boot drive. It's this weird /dev/md0p# structure that confuses me.

The installer produced /dev/md0p1 (/boot), /dev/md0p2 (/var/lib/mysql), /dev/md0p3 (/), /dev/md0p4 (extended), /dev/md0p5 (swap). I noticed it did this for all physically installed machines from the CentOS 6 DVD.

How do I increase the size of the /dev/md0p3? I need this root partition to be expanded. I feel like I need to delete the /dev/md0p3, /dev/md0p4, /dev/md0p5 partitions and then create a new one for /dev/md0p3 with the extra space. I don't care for p4 and p5, because they don't contain actual data. I can create them after the fact.

I am confused on the order of deleting partitions and adding the space in respect to /dev/md0. fdisk -l shows the drives /dev/sda, /dev/sdb and then finally /dev/md0 with all of the sub partitions.

How can I expand an MDADM RAIDs underlying partitions that has subpartitions?

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