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From: "R. B. Riddick" <arne_woerner@yahoo.com>
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Subject: Re: mirror/stripe freezing under FreeBSD 5.5
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--- Rex Roof <rexroof@gmail.com> wrote:
> can I do that without corrupting my data?
> how would that be done?
> 
Hmm...

I am not sure...

I would suggest the following:

1. Make a good nice old-fashioned backup to tape or so. :-) And verify it! ;-)

2. Split ur big-geom-device into two
2.1 by removing disks from the mirrors and
2.2 by creating a new big-geom-device (with big stripe and slice)

3. copy data from old big-geom-device to the new one.

4. destroy the _old_ big-geom-device

5. insert the free disks to ur new big-geom-device

Increasing slice size of a gmirror-device should be possible via configure...
But changing the stripe size of a gstripe-device is not so easy... :)

-Arne


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