From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 22 21:45:34 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 3A22816A4CC for ; Thu, 22 Jun 2006 21:45:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from maxsec@gmail.com) Received: from wr-out-0506.google.com (wr-out-0506.google.com [64.233.184.229]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 272F444361 for ; Thu, 22 Jun 2006 21:18:06 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from maxsec@gmail.com) Received: by wr-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id 50so491582wri for ; Thu, 22 Jun 2006 14:18:05 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; b=S6ZAHwa+4139qowxLp1d7rFPmhymcT3d0QkfqC7IMo6rcCg/SBAR9aIJLlAM201Ffmkushz8LfRlx68J0B+l7qGgkrp6xcmQB5qCocRI9rZhXIu+hBNsDtrFbr0AhEHUxQxv4WXYGBlZcirBiNP6ul5dpRr5uYVFtgtxPz3ISwI= Received: by 10.54.151.7 with SMTP id y7mr2957062wrd; Thu, 22 Jun 2006 14:18:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.54.107.12 with HTTP; Thu, 22 Jun 2006 14:18:05 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <72cf361e0606221418ufa291a2g474d72caa9813336@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2006 22:18:05 +0100 From: "Martin Hepworth" Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <4498AB21.4060405@endries.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <4498AB21.4060405@endries.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: Re: RAID online capacity expansion X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2006 21:45:34 -0000 Josh You'll need to use vinum as a volume manager first. Wouldn't recommend it at all on a mounted filesystem, this can give you alsorts of worries. I'd think about why you need to grow the volume, esp as any expansion of a RAID set will normally result in poor performance, unless you backup the data, rebuild the RAID set/filesystem and then restore the data. IE plan for any changes first. -- Martin On 6/21/06, Josh Endries wrote: > > Hello, > > Has anyone out there successfully done an online expansion of a RAID > array in FreeBSD? How is it done and with what hardware did it work? > From what I can gather, it's not possible. Aside from the fact that > fdisk(8) says "Editing an existing slice will most likely result in the > loss of all data in that slice", growfs(8) says it cannot enlarge a > mounted filesystem. disklabel seems to be okay with making live changes, > but I haven't tested it. > > Is there any way to do this in FreeBSD or is Linux+LVM the way to go? > > Thanks, > Josh > _______________________________________________ > 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" >