Date: Wed, 11 May 2005 20:34:59 +0530 From: Subhro <subhro.kar@gmail.com> To: Tony Shadwick <tshadwick@goinet.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Hardware RAID 5 - Need vinum? Message-ID: <42821F1B.10209@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20050511085916.O15987@mail.goinet.com> References: <20050510155942.V34838@mail.goinet.com> <42817BEC.5060901@gmail.com> <20050511085916.O15987@mail.goinet.com>
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This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------010608020203080109070407 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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. --------------010608020203080109070407--
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