Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2010 16:04:50 +0400 From: "Andrey V. Elsukov" <bu7cher@yandex.ru> To: Lister <lister@kawashti.org> Cc: Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@FreeBSD.org>, freebsd-geom@freebsd.org Subject: Re: OCE and GPT Message-ID: <4BCEE9E2.6010007@yandex.ru> In-Reply-To: <B814515407B5445092FD63116EA3DA6B@neo> References: <B814515407B5445092FD63116EA3DA6B@neo>
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On 21.04.2010 13:21, Lister wrote: > I have a 5TB RAID5 (/dev/da0) on a 3Ware controller supporting OCE. I > partitioned it into p1, p2 & p3 using gpt on FreeBSD-7.1-RELEAE. > P3 is 3.5TB and is the one I need to expand by adding another 1TB drive > to the RAID. It is now 87% full. > > Both gpt and gpart don't allow resizing a partition. > Of course, backing up the RAID to another is not an option. > > I'm in a rather desperate situation and I'm willing to do whatever it > takes. If there's no current software solution, I'm willing to use a hex > editor to edit the disk directly if someone could advise me of the > layout of GPT as created by gpt- and gpart if different. I used to do > this on MBR disks at times of necessity. I published patch to add resize feature to GEOM PART class some time ago: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-geom/2010-March/003955.html -- WBR, Andrey V. Elsukov
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