Thanks for the help, I was getting towards the solution you sent anyway. As for LVM, I agree completely, nut unfortunately this is a legacy machine which I did not build originally -----Original Message----- From: Thierry ITTY [mailto:thierry.itty@xxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: 09 October 2003 16:18 To: redhat-list@xxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: SCSI disk question once the new disk is installed, i'd create new raid partitions with proper size create fs on them mount them copy anything from smaller disk chroot the new root fs lilo now you should have another bootable disk with bigger partitions shutdown remove the smaller disk put the new bigger disk in it's place (mean hdb -> hda) put the empty bigger disk reboot define new raid partitions on the second big disk add'em to the new raid system activate raid let synchronize no warranty at all, of course i think it would have been much easier if you had used LVM... A 09:30 09/10/2003 +0100, vous avez écrit : >Hi > >I have a machine with two software raid disks, these disks need to be >replaced with bigger disks to increase the size of the /home partition, has >anyone done this before? >Basically I need to: >Set one idsk as faulty in the raid config >Remove the disk from the raid >Remove the disk physically and replace with new disk >After that I'm starting to get a bit hazy > >Any good suggestions for this? > >Gordon > > >-- >redhat-list mailing list >unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe >https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > > -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
