From: Wayne Gemmell <wayne@flashmedia.co.za>
To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Online resize
Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2008 09:30:19 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200804290930.19645.wayne@flashmedia.co.za> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <18454.29469.343413.701176@notabene.brown>
On Tuesday 29 April 2008 03:00:13 Neil Brown wrote:
> On Tuesday March 11, wayne@flashmedia.co.za wrote:
> > Hi all
> >
> > I'd like to do an online resize for my RAID5 drives now that I've
> > upgraded them to 500GB drives. Now I'm a bit stuck. I assume the steps
> > would be the following.
>
> What exactly do you mean by "now that I've upgraded them to 500GB
> drives".
> Don't tell my you got new 500GB drives, created little partitions on
> them to match the old drives, and added those to the array. That is
> the wrong way around.
That sounds about the way I did it. Since the hdd were so much bigger than the
original drives I managed tho fit all 6 partitions on 2 hdd. Then created a
new raid and copied everything across. Deleted the 6 partitions and grew the
raid to fit the next 2 hdd.
Your way sounds easier....
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Regards
Wayne
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-04-29 7:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-03-11 9:19 Online resize Wayne Gemmell
2008-03-11 11:12 ` Robin Hill
2008-03-11 12:44 ` Wayne Gemmell
2008-03-11 14:58 ` Robin Hill
2008-03-12 7:27 ` Wayne Gemmell
2008-03-12 7:46 ` Wayne Gemmell
2008-03-12 8:04 ` Michael Tokarev
2008-03-12 9:14 ` Wayne Gemmell
2008-03-12 9:38 ` Michael Tokarev
2008-03-12 11:17 ` Wayne Gemmell
2008-03-12 9:31 ` Robin Hill
2008-04-29 1:00 ` Neil Brown
2008-04-29 7:30 ` Wayne Gemmell [this message]
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