On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 1:22 PM, Lennart Sorensen < lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> wrote:
On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 04:14:04PM -0600, o1bigtenor wrote:
On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 9:30 AM, Lennart Sorensen < lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> wrote:
Now I used gdisk to set things up so likely that is where I will need to start - - - hmmmmmmmmmmm.
Has anyone done anything like this in the somewhat recent past?
(Wondering if when disk is partitioned that mdadm will happily absorb
On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 05:04:16PM -0600, o1bigtenor wrote: that
disk into the array. Likely will need another reboot too!)
There should be zero reboots required for this.
Most partition tools do a partition table reread automatically when you exit, or you can use 'hdparm -z /dev/sdX' to do it. If /proc/partitions shows the new sizes, you are good to go.
Is there a way to partition the drive in a running system?
The only way that I know of is to reboot onto a rescue disk and use gparted there to partition the drive.
I have not been able to find anything using duckduck nor ms google.
A complete back is just finishing as I write this.
Thanking those that have contributed to the conversation for their assistance!!
Well cfdisk, parted, fdisk, gdisk, etc.
Somewhat depends if you need GPT or MBR style partition table.
Needs to be a GPT style partition table. Its on a UEFI system and that was the only way I could get things working. I got quite used to fdisk and gdisk is just different enough that I am still a little careful. I don't really enjoy those long teaching moments anymore! TIA Dee