Hi Liwei, On 10/17/2017 01:09 AM, Liwei wrote: > Hi list, tldr: Have a mixed-sized (2TB and 6TB) RAID6 array, realised > there is now more potential space (using only 6TB drives) than > running the array based on the 2TB "smallest-drive" size. Is there a > way to convert to using only the 6TB drives, without a rebuild? It depends. /-: Certainly not in one step. If you are running LVM on top of your array, and have the space split up into various LVs, none extremely large, there are some possibilities. You might need one more 6TB drive to help with the juggling. Please use lsdrv[1] to document your running setup so we can see what might be possible. Past the output into your reply in *text* mode, with line wrapping turned off. (It would help if you composed your mails in Thunderbird or some client that handles text mode properly -- TBird supports gmail accounts.) Phil [1] https://github.com/pturmel/lsdrv -- 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
