From owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Apr 14 10:24:23 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 077FC1065672 for ; Mon, 14 Apr 2008 10:24:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from db@nipsi.de) Received: from fop.bsdsystems.de (mx.bsdsystems.de [88.198.57.43]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C3C218FC0A for ; Mon, 14 Apr 2008 10:24:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from db@nipsi.de) Received: from [172.16.1.13] (e176121128.adsl.alicedsl.de [85.176.121.128]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by fop.bsdsystems.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 623762C35D for ; Mon, 14 Apr 2008 11:51:37 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <48032924.2010009@nipsi.de> Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2008 11:51:32 +0200 From: Dennis Berger User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 (Windows/20080213) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: gmirror: replacing a drive with a bigger one. X-BeenThere: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Filesystems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2008 10:24:23 -0000 Hi, currently I have two 180gb drives in a RAID1 with gmirror. Now we need to extend the size so I would like to replace both drives with 500gb drives. Is there a recommend way to do this? I suggested replacing one drive at first and let gmirror set it up to as a 180gb. Then use growfs to extend the last partition this is my /data partition. Or should I use dump/restore and dd to replace? What do I have to keep in mind then? copying metadata and such? What do you suggest? Thanks, Dennis