From: Jakob Oestergaard <jakob@unthought.net>
To: TJ <tjharrel@eagle.fgcu.edu>
Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: RAID5 reconfig
Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2003 01:19:42 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030120001941.GB23750@unthought.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <000f01c2ae90$3e9c4eb0$6500a8c0@system>
On Sat, Dec 28, 2002 at 11:43:25AM -0500, TJ wrote:
> > Use with extreme care:
> > http://unthought.net/raidreconf/index.shtml
>
> > Someone posted a success story on this list a few weeks ago using a
> > pretty big RAID5 volume/array.
>
> > Marco
>
> > PS: Please use the 'Subject' field.
>
> Sorry about that.. Please CC me, I don't seem to be getting any feed from
> the list.
>
> Thanks for the link. I've been reading up on others experiences and
> documentation seems somewhat thin. Does a mini-HOWTO exist anywhere?
> >From what I've read, first raidreconf is used to change the array, then
> fsck -f is run to check the product, then the file system resize utility
> must be used to change the size of the filesystem on the RAID array. Then it
> would probably be a good idea to run fsck -f once more. This should be
> sufficient to add more disks to a RAID 5 array and enlarge the filesystem to
> take advantage of the larger block device. Am I missing anything?
Only that in some scenarios raidreconf fails horribly - this seems to at
least happen if you have hot spares configured.
Make sure you have a good backup. Please report success/failure to the
list - that is greatly appreciated :)
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-01-20 0:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-12-28 16:43 RAID5 reconfig TJ
2003-01-20 0:19 ` Jakob Oestergaard [this message]
2003-01-20 3:16 ` TJ
2003-01-20 3:48 ` Scott McDermott
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2002-12-28 1:25 (unknown), TJ
2002-12-28 12:39 ` RAID5 reconfig Marco Shaw
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