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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