Date: Thu, 1 May 2003 15:34:26 -0700 From: Joshua Oreman <oremanj@webserver.get-linux.org> To: Tobias Roth <roth@iam.unibe.ch> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: add subdisk in vinum concat Message-ID: <20030501223425.GA63276@webserver.get-linux.org> In-Reply-To: <20030501151746.GB13925@speedy.unibe.ch> References: <20030501151746.GB13925@speedy.unibe.ch>
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On Thu, May 01, 2003 at 05:17:47PM +0200 or thereabouts, Tobias Roth seemed to write: > Hi > > I was just wondering if it's possible to add another subdisk to my > vinum concat without losing the existing data, and if so, how. > Here is my vinum.conf: > > drive 9GBSCSI device /dev/da0s2 > drive 16GBATA device /dev/ad0 > drive 30GBATA device /dev/ad2 > > volume storage > plex org concat > sd length 0 drive 9GBSCSI > sd length 0 drive 16GBATA > sd length 0 drive 30GBATA > > It looks like I can simply add a new disk. The problem I see is the > newfs'ing. All the docs I found say to newfs the whole storage, not > individual subdisks. Which, of course, would make me lose my data. Have you heard about growfs(8)? man 8 growfs Example: # umount /usr # growfs /dev/vinum/usr We strongly reccomend to backup your data first. Do you have a backup (Yes/No)? [type Yes, press Enter] ... And then it'll look like newfs output, but you won't lose anything. HTH, -- Josh > > Thanks for any help, t. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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