From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jon Hardcastle Subject: Re: Fwd: Majordomo results: Re: Majordomo results: . Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2010 01:07:51 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <61113.94788.qm@web51303.mail.re2.yahoo.com> References: Reply-To: Jon@eHardcastle.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org, Felipe Alvarez List-Id: linux-raid.ids --- On Wed, 24/2/10, Felipe Alvarez wrote: > From: Felipe Alvarez > 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 >=20 > Felipe > end > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe > linux-raid" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at=A0 http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html >=20 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 si= ze(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/fai= led and the smallest partition size is now 500GB or whatever you can --= grow=3Dmax and get that unused space. ----------------------- N: Jon Hardcastle E: Jon@eHardcastle.com 'Do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will bring worries of its ow= n.' *********** Please note, I am phasing out jd_hardcastle AT yahoo.com and replacing = it with jon AT eHardcastle.com *********** ----------------------- =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