From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jul 29 23:07:19 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 4F86916A4DF for ; Sat, 29 Jul 2006 23:07:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from richard@firebadger.net) Received: from mail.firebadger.net (82-69-4-157.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk [82.69.4.157]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 49FAA43D46 for ; Sat, 29 Jul 2006 23:07:18 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from richard@firebadger.net) Received: (qmail 5388 invoked by uid 1011); 29 Jul 2006 23:06:34 -0000 Received: from 127.0.0.1 by brian.firebadger.net (envelope-from , uid 1009) with qmail-scanner-1.25-st-qms (clamdscan: 0.88.1/1449. spamassassin: 3.1.1. perlscan: 1.25-st-qms. Clear:RC:1(127.0.0.1):. Processed in 0.150187 secs); 29 Jul 2006 23:06:34 -0000 X-Antivirus-FIREBADGER-Mail-From: richard@firebadger.net via brian.firebadger.net X-Antivirus-FIREBADGER: 1.25-st-qms (Clear:RC:1(127.0.0.1):. Processed in 0.150187 secs Process 5382) Received: from localhost.firebadger.net (HELO www.firebadger.net) (richard@firebadger.net@127.0.0.1) by mail.firebadger.net with SMTP; 29 Jul 2006 23:06:33 -0000 Received: from 82.69.4.157 (SquirrelMail authenticated user richard@firebadger.net) by www.firebadger.net with HTTP; Sun, 30 Jul 2006 00:06:33 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: <18755.82.69.4.157.1154214393.squirrel@www.firebadger.net> In-Reply-To: <20060729192724.GB11595@sysadm.stc> References: <44BD4AF9.60605@firebadger.net> <20060729192724.GB11595@sysadm.stc> Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2006 00:06:33 +0100 (BST) From: "Richard Collyer" To: "Igor Robul" User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.6 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Using 3ware OCE and FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: richard@firebadger.net List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2006 23:07:19 -0000 On Sat, July 29, 2006 8:27 pm, Igor Robul wrote: > On Tue, Jul 18, 2006 at 09:56:25PM +0100, Richard Collyer wrote: >> >> Now that all seems easy enough however wouldn't using OCE change the >> partition size (obviously) leading to the partition needing to be >> reformatted? > I have not used it myself but there is "growfs" utility in base FreeBSD. > Look at growfs(8) Hello, I've installed the 3ware card ok and already ran out of space on it (3x 250Gb in Raid 5). About to try the OCE thing which I will use growfs(8) for. I may even try it on some spare 80gb satas I have lying around to see if it works prior to trashing hundreds ogf gigs of data. Cheers Richard -- Richard Collyer richard@firebadger.net