From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 9 17:02:24 2003 Return-Path: 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 15AF837B401 for ; Mon, 9 Jun 2003 17:02:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6F26C43FAF for ; Mon, 9 Jun 2003 17:02:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 9C0FB527A9; Tue, 10 Jun 2003 09:32:20 +0930 (CST) Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2003 09:32:20 +0930 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: freeBSD Message-ID: <20030610000220.GH23573@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <1055171436.1892.3.camel@big.dagerot.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="U3BNvdZEnlJXqmh+" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1055171436.1892.3.camel@big.dagerot.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RAID, Vinum and different disksizes X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2003 00:02:24 -0000 --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+--