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Date:      Fri, 16 Dec 2005 03:17:59 +0100
From:      Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Lapo Nustrini <lapo@seanet.com>
Cc:        freebsd-geom@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: gconcat
Message-ID:  <20051216021759.GA14087@garage.freebsd.pl>
In-Reply-To: <8B452D98-4FD5-4755-AB7F-31D278DF33F7@seanet.com>
References:  <8B452D98-4FD5-4755-AB7F-31D278DF33F7@seanet.com>

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On Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 04:06:08PM -0800, Lapo Nustrini wrote:
+>=20
+> Can anyone tell me whether it is possible to expand a gconcat volume (by=
 adding a drive to the end of it) without having to wipe the data from the =
existing set and recreate=20
+> from scratch?
+> I don't mind having to manually edit bsdlabels and such.  Just wondering=
 if its possible at all.
+> I've been looking for some docs on this but can't seem to find a definit=
ive answer.

It should just work be relabeling providers.
If you did something like:

	# gconcat label foo da0 da1

You can expand it with:

	# gconcat label foo da0 da1 da2 da3

etc. Just be sure the order of old providers is the same.

PS. You'd need to stop device 'foo' first.

--=20
Pawel Jakub Dawidek                       http://www.wheel.pl
pjd@FreeBSD.org                           http://www.FreeBSD.org
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