From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Wayne Gemmell Subject: Re: Online resize Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2008 09:30:19 +0200 Message-ID: <200804290930.19645.wayne@flashmedia.co.za> References: <200803111119.56015.wayne@flashmedia.co.za> <18454.29469.343413.701176@notabene.brown> Reply-To: wayne@flashmedia.co.za Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Return-path: In-Reply-To: <18454.29469.343413.701176@notabene.brown> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids 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 st= eps > > 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. =A0That i= s > the wrong way around. That sounds about the way I did it. Since the hdd were so much bigger t= han the=20 original drives I managed tho fit all 6 partitions on 2 hdd. Then creat= ed a=20 new raid and copied everything across. Deleted the 6 partitions and gre= w the=20 raid to fit the next 2 hdd.=20 Your way sounds easier.... --=20 Regards Wayne=20 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" i= n the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html