> On Jan 19, 2010, at 10:46 AM, Flaherty, Patrick wrote: > >> I was under the impression that the linux kernel refuses to detect >> changes to the physical device that the root file system is mounted >> from. I've always had to reboot to get the kernel to recognize new >> geometry on single physical device machines. >> >> Patrick
I think you're right but if you are using a separate data partition for say the root file system, / and /allmydata; and you expand /allmydata to fill our the new physical drives no reboot is needed..I think?!? -- Regards, James ;) Samuel Goldwyn - "I'm willing to admit that I may not always be right, but I am never wrong." - http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/s/samuel_goldwyn.html _______________________________________________ Linux-PowerEdge mailing list [email protected] https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge Please read the FAQ at http://lists.us.dell.com/faq
