On 25/01/13 12:22, Asif Iqbal wrote: > On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 8:09 PM, Brad Campbell <brad@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On 25/01/13 09:02, Asif Iqbal wrote: >>> I was hoping to grow the size of the raid10. I was following this link >>> https://raid.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Growing#Expanding_existing_partitions >> >> Re-read the second sentence on the first line of that page. > doh! so I can only grow raid level 1/4/5/6 > > ok, can you suggest how can I increase the /dir (/dev/md10) with bigger disks? > > I already backed up the data. > > does linux software raid allow disks of different sizes in raid10? I > did not see much discussion > of raid level 10 in that wiki page. >From my understanding, there are two methods: 1) Create new RAID10, dd old RAID10 to new one, expand filesystem/lvm/whatever is on the RAID10 2) Don't use RAID10, use RAID1 + linear. Don't increase the size of members, only add additional pairs at the end of the linear array. 3) The one exception to 2 is that you can expand the size of the last pair, but this is somewhat tricky. I've done this successfully twice, but I doubt you really want to be using linear anyway. Regards, Adam -- Adam Goryachev Website Managers www.websitemanagers.com.au -- 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
