On Sat, Dec 28, 2002 at 11:43:25AM -0500, TJ wrote: > > Use with extreme care: > > http://unthought.net/raidreconf/index.shtml > > > Someone posted a success story on this list a few weeks ago using a > > pretty big RAID5 volume/array. > > > Marco > > > PS: Please use the 'Subject' field. > > Sorry about that.. Please CC me, I don't seem to be getting any feed from > the list. > > Thanks for the link. I've been reading up on others experiences and > documentation seems somewhat thin. Does a mini-HOWTO exist anywhere? > >From what I've read, first raidreconf is used to change the array, then > fsck -f is run to check the product, then the file system resize utility > must be used to change the size of the filesystem on the RAID array. Then it > would probably be a good idea to run fsck -f once more. This should be > sufficient to add more disks to a RAID 5 array and enlarge the filesystem to > take advantage of the larger block device. Am I missing anything? Only that in some scenarios raidreconf fails horribly - this seems to at least happen if you have hot spares configured. Make sure you have a good backup. Please report success/failure to the list - that is greatly appreciated :) -- ................................................................ : jakob@unthought.net : And I see the elder races, : :.........................: putrid forms of man : : Jakob Østergaard : See him rise and claim the earth, : : OZ9ABN : his downfall is at hand. : :.........................:............{Konkhra}...............: - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
