Hardware RAID 5 - Need vinum?

Subhro subhro.kar at gmail.com
Wed May 11 08:05:08 PDT 2005


On 5/11/2005 19:33, Tony Shadwick wrote:

> The problem I've had in the past in Windows for example:
>
> Drive D: is a RAID5 volume, 400GB, nearly full.  If I add a 200GB 
> drive to the array, the 'disk' that Drive D: resides on is now ~600GB, 
> but Drive D: will remain 400GB.  I would have to utilize a third party 
> piece of software to resize Drive D: to utilize all 400GB, or create 
> another partition to use that extra 200GB.
>
> In my case. /media/video will still only have 400GB available to it.  
> I'm creating one partition on the array with one slice.  My 
> understanding then is if I go into the label editor after adding my 
> new drive, I'll have 200GB of free space, and I could create another 
> slice and another mountpoint, but not simply add that additional space 
> to my original slice and mountpoint at /media/video.
>
> Now, since I originally posted this message, I did more digging, and 
> found some posts regarding growfs.  Perhaps that command is what I'm 
> looking for, and would allow me to grow /media/video to use all 600GB 
> in that case.
>
> Now my only concern is whether or not the SX6000 support 
> nondestructively growing a RAID5 array.  If I'm right about growfs 
> that is. :)

You have already answered your question :). BTW kindly do not top post 
and wrap up mails at 72 characters. IT really creates a mess in my text 
mode client :(.

Regards
S.



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