Re: [CentOS] Mounting LVM disk

2010-05-24 Thread Brian Mathis
On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 11:43 AM, Weiner, Michael wrote: > Brian Mathis, On Monday, May 24, 2010 11:17 AM ... >> PPS. You might have a reason, but it would be irresponsible not to >> point out that by using RAID0 you now have an exponential risk of >> losing all of that data. > > The Raid0 is simp

Re: [CentOS] Mounting LVM disk

2010-05-24 Thread Weiner, Michael
Todd Denniston, On Monday, May 24, 2010 11:50 AM To: CentOS mailing list > With the Dell support, you could call Dell and ask how they expect the Perc to work with the disk > upon reinsertion. > Should at least letup your nerves. Thanks Todd, I think I will have to resort to that :) Michael ==

Re: [CentOS] Mounting LVM disk

2010-05-24 Thread Rob Kampen
Todd Denniston wrote: Weiner, Michael wrote, On 05/24/2010 11:38 AM: Todd Denniston, On Monday, May 24, 2010 11:15 AM BTW had your support contract ran out with Dell/RH? We do have support on the box, but don't purchase a RHEL license an

Re: [CentOS] Mounting LVM disk

2010-05-24 Thread Todd Denniston
Weiner, Michael wrote, On 05/24/2010 11:38 AM: > Todd Denniston, On Monday, May 24, 2010 11:15 AM > >> BTW had your support contract ran out with Dell/RH? > > We do have support on the box, but don't purchase a RHEL license and we > run CentOS instead > >> you might get lucky with a vgscan or l

Re: [CentOS] Mounting LVM disk

2010-05-24 Thread Weiner, Michael
Brian Mathis, On Monday, May 24, 2010 11:17 AM > Since the disk was connected through a RAID controller it's most > likely that the disk is formatted for the custom format that the RAID > controller uses. The controller then presents that disk to the OS. > You're going to have to put the drive ba

Re: [CentOS] Mounting LVM disk

2010-05-24 Thread Weiner, Michael
Todd Denniston, On Monday, May 24, 2010 11:15 AM > Are you sure that the Perc was not presenting you with a logical disk (Volume)? > One I received from dell, with RHEL on it, was setup with 8 disks in a raid5 and the controller was > presenting the whole array as two drives, i.e., no physical dri

Re: [CentOS] Mounting LVM disk

2010-05-24 Thread Brian Mathis
On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 10:28 AM, Weiner, Michael wrote: > List Readers – > > I have a Dell server that uses the Perc 6i controller and had 5 1Tb disks > installed (1 for OS and the other 4 in a Raid0 for a large storage pool). > The owner of the server wanted me to swap out the 1Tb disks for 2Tb

Re: [CentOS] Mounting LVM disk

2010-05-24 Thread Todd Denniston
Weiner, Michael wrote, On 05/24/2010 10:28 AM: > List Readers - > > > > I have a Dell server that uses the Perc 6i controller and had 5 1Tb > disks installed (1 for OS and the other 4 in a Raid0 for a large storage > pool). > > > [r...@gc-server2 ~]# fdisk -l /dev/sdc > > > > Disk /de

[CentOS] Mounting LVM disk

2010-05-24 Thread Weiner, Michael
List Readers - I have a Dell server that uses the Perc 6i controller and had 5 1Tb disks installed (1 for OS and the other 4 in a Raid0 for a large storage pool). The owner of the server wanted me to swap out the 1Tb disks for 2Tb disks - easy enough I thought, but I ran into some issues trying