From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 11 15:08:40 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 2EA9116A4CE for ; Wed, 11 May 2005 15:08:40 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.goinet.com (mail.goinet.com [208.207.72.15]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BF4FE43D55 for ; Wed, 11 May 2005 15:08:39 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from tshadwick@goinet.com) Received: from mail.goinet.com (localhost.goinet.com [127.0.0.1]) by mail.goinet.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id j4BF8cW7099062; Wed, 11 May 2005 10:08:38 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from tshadwick@goinet.com) Received: from localhost (tshadwick@localhost)j4BF8c3M099059; Wed, 11 May 2005 10:08:38 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from tshadwick@goinet.com) X-Authentication-Warning: mail.goinet.com: tshadwick owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 11 May 2005 10:08:38 -0500 (CDT) From: Tony Shadwick To: Subhro In-Reply-To: <42821F1B.10209@gmail.com> Message-ID: <20050511100807.F15987@mail.goinet.com> References: <20050510155942.V34838@mail.goinet.com> <42817BEC.5060901@gmail.com> <20050511085916.O15987@mail.goinet.com> <42821F1B.10209@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV version 0.84, clamav-milter version 0.84e on mail.goinet.com X-Virus-Status: Clean 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 15:08:40 -0000 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