Re: Increasing Space in Software Raid

Thanks for the replys

Isn't it a little more complicated then that. I would have to make partitions on the new device and then I would have to expand then later

Let me see if I can get a little Betty Crocker recipe here so that we are all on the same page

#Fail on device
mdadm --fail /dev/sda1
#Remove the failed drive and then replace it with a larger disk
# mount the disk and format it (would I need a restart in there?)
# Here is where it gets a little tricky for me
# I think I need to make matching partitions on the larger device so that I can bring it into the RAIDs (one for /boot, one for / root)
#once that is rebuild I will break the raid again so that I can remove the remaining smaller disk
#I will then insert the new disk and mout and formate it
# before I bring the new disk into the raid I will want to grow the size of the / root raid - this will also mean that I will have to grow its partition - any tips on that?

Am I missing anything?

-- John C.

Broekman, Maarten wrote:
The easiest way would be to break the mirror. Replace the non-live
device with the new drive. Make a new metadevice with the new device.
Copy the data. Remove the last old device and put in the second new
device. Then re-mirror.

To make life easier you might want to use LVM also rather than raw
metadevices on the new devices.

Maarten Broekman

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Subject: Increasing Space in Software Raid

Hello

I have a server running RHEL 4 and it has a software Raid (1) of 2 250
gb Sata disks. I want to upgrade this to two 750 gb disks in a Raid 1
configuration. There is not another SATA slot available.

Here is some more information

# df -ah
/dev/md1 229G 196G 21G 91% /
none 0 0 0 - /proc
none 0 0 0 - /sys
none 0 0 0 - /dev/pts
usbfs 0 0 0 - /proc/bus/usb
/dev/md0 99M 11M 83M 12% /boot
none 505M 0 505M 0% /dev/shm
none 0 0 0 - /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc
automount(pid2042) 0 0 0 - /var/autofs/bacula
/dev/sdc1 451G 340G 88G 80% /mnt/usb
#
cat /proc/mdstat
Personalities : [raid1]
md1 : active raid1 sda3[0]
242983040 blocks [2/1] [U_]

md0 : active raid1 sda1[0]
104320 blocks [2/1] [U_]

unused devices: <none>


# cat /etc/fstab
/dev/md1 / ext3 defaults
1 1
/dev/md0 /boot ext3 defaults
1 2
none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620
0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults
0 0
none /proc proc defaults
0 0
none /sys sysfs defaults
0 0
LABEL=SWAP-sdb2 swap swap defaults
0 0
LABEL=SWAP-sda2 swap swap defaults
0 0
/dev/sdc1 /mnt/usb ext3 defaults
0 0


Any suggestions/tips?

-- John C.


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