Beolach, That involves double the work! On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 11:45 PM, Beolach <beolach@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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 > -- Majed B. -- 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
