Re: Online resize

[Wayne Gemmell <wayne@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tuesday 29 April 2008 03:00:13 Neil Brown wrote:
> On Tuesday March 11, wayne@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 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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