From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 11 15:05:08 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2024116A4CE for ; Wed, 11 May 2005 15:05:08 +0000 (GMT) Received: from rproxy.gmail.com (rproxy.gmail.com [64.233.170.198]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA8C343D5D for ; Wed, 11 May 2005 15:05:07 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from subhro.kar@gmail.com) Received: by rproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id j1so104812rnf for ; Wed, 11 May 2005 08:05:07 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:organization:user-agent:x-accept-language:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type; b=fDiwf13+E6tTaCeq+CRuJQrWCwVVsbSC57b22eTZe4PTGhn+reGTUp6bvClXGUFTT5m7lLSPv1G4TOzElYL8k7oZyTPzQRNvapkXLzSRUhHwoeJjCwttpHEksZuiwDGD4uXAJBV8fXG1M+mC4HO0ZL+TCe7zdEvIwrrWhyhhuks= Received: by 10.38.92.51 with SMTP id p51mr481889rnb; Wed, 11 May 2005 08:05:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?59.93.160.192? ([59.93.160.192]) by mx.gmail.com with ESMTP id a29sm177683rng.2005.05.11.08.05.05; Wed, 11 May 2005 08:05:07 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <42821F1B.10209@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 11 May 2005 20:34:59 +0530 From: Subhro Organization: Indian Institute of Information Technology User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Windows/20050317) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Tony Shadwick References: <20050510155942.V34838@mail.goinet.com> <42817BEC.5060901@gmail.com> <20050511085916.O15987@mail.goinet.com> In-Reply-To: <20050511085916.O15987@mail.goinet.com> Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="------------010608020203080109070407" X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.1 cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Hardware RAID 5 - Need vinum? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 11 May 2005 15:05:08 -0000 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--