Re: Shrinking a RAID array

[John R Pierce <pierce@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 7/29/2014 5:45 PM, Stephen Harris wrote:
> My google-fu appears to be weak today...
>
> I currently have 8*4Tb in a RAID6.
>
> So far I'm only using 6Tb
>    PV         VG    Fmt  Attr PSize  PFree  Used
>    /dev/md6   Large lvm2 a--  21.83t 15.37t 6.46t
>
> Let's say I wanted to remove 2 of these disks from the array and
> shrink it down to a 6*4Tb
>
> How would I do this?

back it up to external media, rebuild the raid, restore.



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john r pierce                                      37N 122W
somewhere on the middle of the left coast

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