From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 23 00:31:47 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 AF2A216A47B for ; Fri, 23 Jun 2006 00:31:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nikolas.britton@gmail.com) Received: from nz-out-0102.google.com (nz-out-0102.google.com [64.233.162.193]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B3A634474D for ; Fri, 23 Jun 2006 00:07:17 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from nikolas.britton@gmail.com) Received: by nz-out-0102.google.com with SMTP id 34so646143nzf for ; Thu, 22 Jun 2006 17:07:17 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=mpcB3NoDK6KzIX9WwkfbOUVvagPuEjsUGubvm987mEwuSV19YYHSQZkaGuM7DiM/+Vx88/jEGqMGhNIbxNfNqdEBlmtPMd/ZDuG6GlGVPvPGd6HzkQxcMSMeomCDFOc/3iNh1hP/6r8OFUWav4Y1xyEa1u1FEhOTevL8rdsC05g= Received: by 10.37.2.65 with SMTP id e65mr2691251nzi; Thu, 22 Jun 2006 17:07:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.36.182.7 with HTTP; Thu, 22 Jun 2006 17:07:17 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2006 19:07:17 -0500 From: "Nikolas Britton" To: "Josh Endries" In-Reply-To: <4498AB21.4060405@endries.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: <4498AB21.4060405@endries.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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: Fri, 23 Jun 2006 00:31:47 -0000 On 6/20/06, Josh Endries wrote: > Hello, > > Has anyone out there successfully done an online expansion of a > RAID array in FreeBSD? I've done it twice, both times successfully, and I'm about to do it again. > How is it done and with what hardware did it work? > From what I can gather, it's not possible. HighPoint RocketRAID 2220. It is possible. ----------------------------------------------------------------- I don't have time tonight to document the all the steps... I will reply ma=F1ana... This should get you started though: http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200111/growfs.html --=20 BSD Podcasts @: http://bsdtalk.blogspot.com/ http://freebsdforall.blogspot.com/