On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 8:32 PM, Adam Goryachev <mailinglists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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 I like this method. However, can I have raid10 with disks of multiple sizes? ( for my case 2 76G and 4 300G ) > 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 > -- Asif Iqbal PGP Key: 0xE62693C5 KeyServer: pgp.mit.edu A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? -- 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
