Hardware RAID 5 - Need vinum?

Tony Shadwick tshadwick at goinet.com
Wed May 11 08:08:40 PDT 2005


On Wed, 11 May 2005, Subhro wrote:

> 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.
>
>

Nani?  I'm using pine in it's default config.  Totally bizarre.  I'll look 
into though.  Thanks for the help!

Tony


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