gmirror: replacing a drive with a bigger one.

[Miroslav Lachman]

Dennis Berger wrote:

> Hi,
> currently I have two 180gb drives in a RAID1 with gmirror. Now we need 
> to extend the size so I would like to replace both drives with 500gb 
> drives.
> Is there a recommend way to do this?
> I suggested replacing one drive at first and let gmirror set it up to as 
> a 180gb. Then use growfs to extend the last partition this is my /data 
> partition.
> Or should I use dump/restore and dd to replace? What do I have to keep 
> in mind then? copying metadata and such?
> What do you suggest?

I think there is no way to grow gmirror by growfs.
So I will use dump and restore to create brand new gmirror from bigger 
drives.

Miroslav Lachman