[SOLVED] Disk extend or add new virtual drive is better on VMs?
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Disk extend or add new virtual drive is better on VMs?
Hello,
I would like to ask is there any different (except that it will be sda2 or sdb) on VMs when I expand the current disk or add a new virtual one (for LVM for example)? I see the only downside of current disk expand is the shutdown/restart of the VM what is needed. Is there any else?
If you have LVM properly configured, no contest - just add a new disk and do pvcreate on the entire disk; don't partition it. In future you can easily increase it online.
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