Date: Wed, 11 May 2005 10:08:38 -0500 (CDT) From: Tony Shadwick <tshadwick@goinet.com> To: Subhro <subhro.kar@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Hardware RAID 5 - Need vinum? Message-ID: <20050511100807.F15987@mail.goinet.com> In-Reply-To: <42821F1B.10209@gmail.com> References: <20050510155942.V34838@mail.goinet.com> <42817BEC.5060901@gmail.com> <20050511085916.O15987@mail.goinet.com> <42821F1B.10209@gmail.com>
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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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