From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 5 00:07:09 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA08234 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 5 May 1998 00:07:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [139.130.136.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA08210 for ; Tue, 5 May 1998 00:06:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) id QAA11511; Tue, 5 May 1998 16:35:25 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Message-ID: <19980505163525.P4777@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Tue, 5 May 1998 16:35:25 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Karl Pielorz , =?iso-8859-1?Q?Patrik_=C5str=F6m?= Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Adding space to a CCD ! References: <43A432602D33D111BA8F00805FA6FE132CC7A1@STK_FILE> <354DAABD.57BA09D0@tdx.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: <354DAABD.57BA09D0@tdx.co.uk>; from Karl Pielorz on Mon, May 04, 1998 at 12:47:09PM +0100 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 4 May 1998 at 12:47:09 +0100, Karl Pielorz wrote: > Patrik Åström wrote: >> >> Hi ! >> >> Is it possible to add a drive or a partion to a CCD without needing to >> "rebuild" everything from scratch ?. >> >> I have a 4 GB CCD that's almost full and I would now like to add a >> another 2 GB drive, but it would be great >> if I could just add the drive and not need to re-partion it... >> >> Most grateful for any hints or suggestions... > > I used CCD's extensively on my system... The bad news is that they can't be > 'built on the fly', you will need to backup the data on your existing CCD - > add the new drive, reformat - and restore the data... > > Greg Lehey is working on a replacement driver for CCD which may let you do > this in the future, no doubt if he sees this message he'll reply as > well ;-) Correct. See http://www.lemis.com/vinum.html for more details of vinum. It will allow expansion of concatenated plexes, but I currently don't have any plans for direct reorganization of striped and RAID5 plexes. The feature is somewhat limited, since ufs currently doesn't allow expansion. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message