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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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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
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