Infinite Improbability Driver

This is a repost of one of my old Blog Postings from 2005, It’s still current and applies to linux logical volume management. After the jump is the instructions on how to replace a member disc of an LVM2 volume group with a larger one..

I’ve performed this replacement more than a few times, getting rid of small, dying, or poorly performing disks, over the past few years I’ve gotten rid of any disks that aren’t Seagate. I’ve been really impressed with the Seagate drives, they’ve been fast, reliable, and I haven’t had any issues with them.
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