Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2008 19:10:03 -0400 From: Lee Dilkie <Lee@dilkie.com> To: "Donald E. Holt" <donald.holt@earthlink.net> Cc: GEOM Mailing List <freebsd-geom@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Striped Drive for OS File System Message-ID: <47E6E34B.6000107@dilkie.com> In-Reply-To: <1206284676.2073.28.camel@Hank.bullhouse.net> References: <1206284676.2073.28.camel@Hank.bullhouse.net>
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Donald, Yes, it can be done but as a gconcat rather than a gstripe if you need to expand in place. essentially, unmount /usr create gconcat from existing /usr and new drive (use raw drive.). then use growfs to expand gconcatted drive mount gconcatted version of /usr If you can do a backup and restore of /usr, you could create a stripped drive instead (if they are the same size or thereabouts). The only gotcha that I had was in FreeBSD 5.5. Growfs doesn't handle really big disks (which is what you get here). I found that the patch to fix growfs in 6.2 and manually did it and rebuilt growfs and it worked great. I've done it twice now, adding a third drive to my gconcat array. Also. I only used gconcat with the raw drives, ie "gconcat label big_drive /dev/ad2 /dev/ad3 /dev/ad4" but I presume it works the same with slices/partitions. -lee Donald E. Holt wrote: > I haven't seen this particular situation discussed, nor have I been able > to find any specific information on the web. I am not experienced in > GEOM or vinum, so I may be asking a dumb question. If so, I apologize. > > My system has FreeBSD installed across 2 SCSI drives. /dev/da2 > holds /, /tmp, /var, and a swap. /dev/da4 is devoted to /usr and another > swap. A third drive (dev/da5) is dedicated to a Win4BSD virtual machine, > and is mounted as /WinXP (there are still a few MS apps I can't get > around using). > > I'd like to expand /usr fs to an additional SCSI drive (physically > present now, but unused). Would it be possible to do that, perhaps with > gstripe, without distroying data on the current drive? > > Again, sorry if I've asked one of those eye-rolling, forehead-thumping > questions. > > Thanks! > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-geom@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-geom > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-geom-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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