Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2003 09:32:20 +0930 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> To: freeBSD <freebsd@dagerot.nu> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RAID, Vinum and different disksizes Message-ID: <20030610000220.GH23573@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <1055171436.1892.3.camel@big.dagerot.com> References: <1055171436.1892.3.camel@big.dagerot.com>
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--U3BNvdZEnlJXqmh+ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Monday, 9 June 2003 at 17:10:37 +0200, freeBSD wrote: > I have three 120GB disks and one 170GB disk. The first three is forming > a raid-5 volume using Vinum and the last one is just fooling around > without any purpose. > > Can I add this 170GB to the raid5 volume in any way at all?=20 There's nothing (much) stopping you from adding another 120 MB subdisk to your RAID-5 plex. I think you'll have to do an attach -f. You *will* lose the contents of the plex (in fact, you'll have to initialize all four subdisks). You'll have to back up and restore your data. > I do realise that I will loose 50Gb, but that's better than not > using it at all. You can make another volume out of that. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply or reply to the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address and phone numbers --U3BNvdZEnlJXqmh+ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE+5SAMIubykFB6QiMRAr3TAKCtpD4MXYUM2y5M/yC0SpyDlsMafACgml2X 0mSw+MZIuIRjacpjIEyu5As= =xWXi -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --U3BNvdZEnlJXqmh+--
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