Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2008 10:10:00 -0500 From: "Jeffery Swan" <scientist@engineer.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Expanding file system Message-ID: <20080303151000.4183D1F50B1@ws1-2.us4.outblaze.com>
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I am currently running FreeNAS on FreeBSD as a NAS device and it works great. Initially, I had a Highpoint RocketRAID card installed with 3 - 500 Gig drives attached configured in hardware as RAID 5. This gave me about 905 Gig usefull storage. The RAID card allows for adding hard drives via Online RAID Level Migration (ORLM) and this is waht I did. I added another 500 Gig drive and performed the ORLM. Everything worked great. No data was lost and I now have about 1.5 TB of storage but..... The problem is, df only reports back the original 905 Gig. It seems that the RAID controller did migrate my data but left the additional space "raw". What I need to know how to do now is extend my original partition (slice) to include the newly added space without loosing data. The array was originally formatted UFS in one partition (slice). I believe that using a combination of FDISK and FSGROW I should be able to do this but I am really afraid of losing my data (and I don't have a way to back up that much data). My experience is mainly in Linux and I know this is much different. I believe that I could probably boot up knoppix from CD and use gparted, but that would involve removing the NAS box from the rack and installing a CD drive and that's a real pain in the butt. I have no GUI, so everything has to be command line. Any help would be greatly appreciated. If for some reason I have sent this request to the wrong mail list I apologize and would request the correct list. Regards, Jeff Swan --=20 Want an e-mail address like mine? Get a free e-mail account today at www.mail.com!
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