This would be an obvious use of Jack Wohr's pigiron tool (although bearing the cost of a JVM might be more mass than is really supportable).
VM SMAPI provides functions to add minidisks to a guest, and the automation to access the disk, put it online and do the pvcreate, etc would be fairly straightforward once you have the ability to interact with the hypervisor management infrastructure. The filesystem monitor interface might be the only moderately complex part. Wrt to why, if you have a chargeback environment, preallocating space you're not using makes users whiny. Create on use makes that discussion less complex (they still whine, but it's clear what happened and why). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
