Hi Mark, Thanks for the responce, i will wait for the process to finish (which looks as thought it make take a day or two!) and see what it reports then. I have looked throught the adaptec documentation and this is very little concerning expansion. Thanks for the help! Toby -----Original Message----- From: Salyzyn, Mark [mailto:mark_salyzyn@xxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: 10 April 2006 14:13 To: toby@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; linux-scsi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: RE: aaccli - adding a disk to an existing container... You need to contact Adaptec Technical Support, or read the Adaptec Documentation regarding array expansion. Please note that aaccli is no longer supported and has been replaced by arcconf. The array size for a RAID-5 is (n-1)*slice size. The new size is not available until the build has completed, during that time it appears that aaccli is reporting what it can to justify the older size with the newer physical components while in this transitional state. I am unsure of the operation of the /extend_fs switch for aaccli, I believe it is only for the windoze file system; the actions you take under Linux will be incantations around fdisk(8). If I were you, I'd wait for the build to complete before worrying, it has already started and any other actions you take until it is completed could affect the integrity of the data. If the data is unimportant, just build a fresh 4 drive RAID-5 and you can use the disk space immediately ;-> Sincerely -- Mark Salyzyn > -----Original Message----- > From: linux-scsi-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:linux-scsi-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Toby Moxham > Sent: Monday, April 10, 2006 8:15 AM > To: linux-scsi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: aaccli - adding a disk to an existing container... > > > > > > Hi, > > I have an Adaptec 2610SA sata raid card I inititally > configured it with 3x > 300gb drives in a Raid 5 configuration. I now have added another 300gb > drive. > > Using AAC CLI in Slackware linux... i have issued the command > container > reconfigure 0 (0,3,0) to add the fourth disk to the array, It > is currently > in progress in doing this . > > however when i now do container list i get this :- > > Executing: container list > Num Total Oth Chunk Scsi Partition > Label Type Size Ctr Size Usage B:ID:L Offset:Size > ----- ------ ------ --- ------ ------- ------ ------------- > 0 Reconf 558GB Open > /dev/sda RAID_ARRAY > 62 RAID-5 558GB 64KB None 0:00:0 64.0KB: 186GB > 0:01:0 64.0KB: 186GB > 0:02:0 64.0KB: 186GB > 0:03:0 64.0KB: 186GB > > I assume that what has happened is that the 558GB array is > being distributed > across the four disks. (or is it because the task is still in > progress?) > > However i also want to grow the size of the array to max of > the four disks. > (rather than leaving free space on each disk) > > Do i need to use /extend_fs switch (looks as thought this is only for > windows) or do i need to use the partition resize. > > Any help would be appreciated. > > Thanks > Toby Moxham > -- > No virus found in this outgoing message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.1.385 / Virus Database: 268.4.0/306 - Release > Date: 09/04/2006 > > -- > No virus found in this outgoing message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.1.385 / Virus Database: 268.4.0/306 - Release > Date: 09/04/2006 > > - > : send the line "unsubscribe > linux-scsi" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.385 / Virus Database: 268.4.0/306 - Release Date: 09/04/2006 -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.385 / Virus Database: 268.4.0/306 - Release Date: 09/04/2006 - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
