Forgot to send to the list... On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 13:42, Beolach <beolach@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 10:39, John Robinson > <john.robinson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Before I have to go to a customer's premises and try it, I wanted to ask if >> anyone had already done anything like this: I have a CentOS 5 system with >> 0.90 metadata and type fd partitions with RAID-5 over 3 discs. I want to >> grow it by replacing the drives. If I dd the small partitions onto larger >> ones on the new discs, then reboot, will the system recognise the RAID-5 - >> which now has its metadata somewhere in the middle of the paritions not at >> the end - so that I can then --grow? >> > > I have no idea if this would actually work, but maybe try partitioning > the new, larger drives so the partitions are identical in size to the > old discs, copying the old discs to the new partitions, starting the > array with the new partitions, resizing the new partitions, and then > running --grow. If mdadm can re-check the size of the member devices > of a running array at --grow time, this might work, but if it only > checks member device sizes at creation or assemble time, then it > probably won't. > > > Good luck, > Conway S. Smith > -- 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
