On Tuesday 29 April 2008 03:00:13 Neil Brown wrote: > On Tuesday March 11, wayne@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > Hi all > > > > I'd like to do an online resize for my RAID5 drives now that I've > > upgraded them to 500GB drives. Now I'm a bit stuck. I assume the steps > > would be the following. > > What exactly do you mean by "now that I've upgraded them to 500GB > drives". > Don't tell my you got new 500GB drives, created little partitions on > them to match the old drives, and added those to the array. That is > the wrong way around. That sounds about the way I did it. Since the hdd were so much bigger than the original drives I managed tho fit all 6 partitions on 2 hdd. Then created a new raid and copied everything across. Deleted the 6 partitions and grew the raid to fit the next 2 hdd. Your way sounds easier.... -- Regards Wayne -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
