From: Jon Hardcastle <jd_hardcastle@yahoo.com>
To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org, Felipe Alvarez <felipe.alvarez@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Fwd: Majordomo results: Re: Majordomo results: .
Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2010 01:07:51 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <61113.94788.qm@web51303.mail.re2.yahoo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e4ae6451002240054q4cb517a3m4715046647e2d68c@mail.gmail.com>
--- On Wed, 24/2/10, Felipe Alvarez <felipe.alvarez@gmail.com> wrote:
> From: Felipe Alvarez <felipe.alvarez@gmail.com>
> Subject: Fwd: Majordomo results: Re: Majordomo results: .
> To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
> Date: Wednesday, 24 February, 2010, 8:54
> Hi list. I've 4 X 320GB Sata disks in
> Raid 5 (mdadm - v2.6.7.1 - 15th
> October 2008). They all have a 0xFD raid autodetect
> parition, filling
> 100% of the drives. One drive failed, and I bought a 500GB
> disk
> (instead of 320GB). Should I just add /dev/sde as-is,
> allowing mdadm
> to automatically rebuild it as required? Or, should I
> partition it to
> exact same dimensions/size as the other disks, with
> part-type 0xFD?
> TIA
>
> Felipe
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AFAIK
You can - after you have failed/removed etc the old drive. Create a new partition that is the same type - but not necessarily the identical size(i.e. fill the whole drive if you like but not smaller) and add it to the array.
The beauty of that being that when all the drives have been retired/failed and the smallest partition size is now 500GB or whatever you can --grow=max and get that unused space.
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2010-02-24 8:54 ` Fwd: Majordomo results: Re: Majordomo results: Felipe Alvarez
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2010-02-24 9:45 ` Felipe Alvarez
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