At Thu, 2 Jul 2009 13:26:11 -0400 CentOS mailing list <centos@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi Bob,
>
> On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 13:18, Bob Hoffman<bob@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>If /dev/md1 is made out of /dev/sda2 and /dev/sdb2, it will not work,
> >>as those partitions will still be the same size as they were before...
> >
> > The grow command is supposed to expand the size of that md1 from its current
> > 200+GB to fill the rest of the 500gb drive.
> >
> > I thought you could then expand the lvm partions inside of that.
>
> I'm not talking about the logical volumes (that you called lvm
> partitions), but the physical partitions that make /dev/md1, which are
> /dev/sda2, /dev/sdb2 and /dev/sdc2. You're not really supposed to
> change the sizes of those, so although you will have a 500GB disk, you
> will still have a 250GB partition...
>
> Actually, it is indeed possible that you could fail a 250GB disk, add
> a 500GB disk, create a larger partition on it and try to add it back
> to /dev/md1, but I don't know if that will work or not, it might not
> as the partitions are not exactly the same size, I never tried to do
> something like that... If you want to try that, I suggest you have
> good backups of your data before you start.
According to the mdadm man page, a RAID1 set can be made from different
sized disks/partitions. It will be sized the size of the smallest
disk/partition in the set. Going through a series of fail/replace you
could end up with a RAID1 set that is smaller than the smallest
disk/partition, at which point the GROW option will grow the RAID1 set.
And no, I have not done this. It also states that the kernel needs have
the proper support to do this.
>
> The other situation (copying the partition table of the smaller disk
> to the bigger disk and creating new partitions) is one that I already
> used many times, and it always worked right for me.
>
> HTH,
> Filipe
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