Actually, this shouldn't work. RAID only rebuilds at the smallest drive, right? so even if i hot swap, it wouldn't give me the full drive space. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Stephen Samuel" <samuel@xxxxxxxxxxx> To: "Adam Lang" <aalang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; "linux-newbie" <linux-newbie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Sunday, April 18, 2004 9:27 PM Subject: Re: adjusting partitions without a reinstall > FOr changing partitions, parted would be the way to go. > > On the other hand, since you're running RAID 1, you should be able to > swap one drive for a larger one, rebuild the mirror, then swap the second > drive and rebuild again. > After swapping out the boot drive, you may have to re-install grub/lilo/whatever. > > If you can hot-swap your drives, this should be seamless for the users. > If you have to poweroff between boots, then you'll run into a problem with > grub not being installed on your primary drive after boot. > > This would require that you boot with an emergency disk and re-installing > grub. (you'll need a version of grub.conf that says to find the boot partition > on the secondary drive). Once the system is up, then you can rebuild the > mirror again. (or you can do it from the emergency boot system) > > Adam Lang wrote: > > Hmm, good idea, but unfortunately that won't work for me either. The server > > has two hot swap RAID 1 drives. To add anything else, it will require > > external storage. > > > > Basically I am just looking for a temporary fix until later down the road > > when I go with more storage. The couple gigs I would be moving into the > > root partition will suffice for a while. > > > -- > Stephen Samuel +1(604)876-0426 samuel@xxxxxxxxxxx > http://www.bcgreen.com/~samuel/ > Powerful committed communication. Transformation touching > the jewel within each person and bringing it to light. > - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-admin" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
