Disk Recovery Part III

[warlord at MIT.EDU (Derek Atkins)]

Well, I was /trying/ to be abstract, here, but the real answer is
"I resized my vmware virtual disk into a larger size and I want
to increase the size of my root partition on that virtual disk".

Besides, you can't have more than four native partitions and only
one of them can be an extended partition.  So once your disk is
partitioned fully like that then if the disk geometry changes
you need to actually mess with the partition sizes and don't have
the flexibility to just add another partition.

-derek

Quoting Matthew Gillen <me at mattgillen.net>:

> Derek,
> It's not clear to me what you're talking about.  What do you mean your
> physical disk "just changed" from 40GB to 80GB?  If the 80GB is a new
> disk, why not re-do the partitioning and re-create the LVM according to
> the new size?  If there is only one disk and the extra 40GB is from some
> other partition on the same disk (that just got re-claimed from some
> other OS), why not treat that partition as a *new* physical device?   I
> can't see why you would ever want to re-size a physical device.  There's
> nothing wrong with having a LogicalVolume that has two partitions from
> the same disk as physical devices.
>
> --Matt

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