Re: [gentoo-user] resize raid1 array

2008-02-07 Thread Simon Turner
Hi Rasmus, you will first need to resize your md device. Using mdadm, that would be done with --grow (check the man, `mdadm /dev/md123 --grow --size=500G` should do the trick). But that will leave your filesystem intact at the current size, so you'll have to resize the filesystem next. I

Re: [gentoo-user] resize raid1 array

2008-02-07 Thread Rasmus Andersen
On Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 06:50:57AM -0500, Simon Turner wrote: Hi Rasmus, you will first need to resize your md device. Using mdadm, that would be done with --grow (check the man, `mdadm /dev/md123 --grow --size=500G` should do the trick). Ah yes, thanks for that. For some reason I had not

Re: [gentoo-user] resize raid1 array

2008-02-07 Thread Simon Turner
Getting OT but... Something I like with Raid1 is when I want to upgrade, update or modify in any way the installation. I simply degrade the array right before the modif so that I work on only one device (say sda1) and the other (say sdb1) become the pre-modif backup. The the modification is

[gentoo-user] resize raid1 array

2008-02-06 Thread Rasmus Andersen
Hello, I had a raid1/mirror array of two 200G disks. Then one failed and I thought 'lets get two 500G disks and just ease them in, they are cheap'. So I added the full 500G partition from the first disk to the degraded array, watched the resync, removed the remaining 200G disk and added the last

[gentoo-user] Resize /

2006-11-16 Thread jakommo
Hi Listmembers, I have a problem the / Partition on my system is to smal, is there a save way to resize it? I know mounting other partitions to e.g. /usr will help but the / is only 4,6G so it will help only temporarily. thanks jakommo

Re: [gentoo-user] Resize /

2006-11-16 Thread Ryan Crisman
you can emerge gparted and use a gui program that well allow you to resize your partitions, plus add and remove partitions. On 11/16/06, jakommo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Listmembers, I have a problem the / Partition on my system is to smal, is there a save way to resize it? I know mounting

Re: [gentoo-user] Resize /

2006-11-16 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 16 Nov 2006 18:55:00 +0100, jakommo wrote: I have a problem the / Partition on my system is to smal, is there a save way to resize it? I know mounting other partitions to e.g. /usr will help but the / is only 4,6G so it will help only temporarily. /usr often account for more than

Re: [gentoo-user] Resize /

2006-11-16 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 16 November 2006 19:55, jakommo wrote: Hi Listmembers, I have a problem the / Partition on my system is to smal, is there a save way to resize it? I know mounting other partitions to e.g. /usr will help but the / is only 4,6G so it will help only temporarily. You have a tricky

Re: [gentoo-user] Resize /

2006-11-16 Thread geistteufel
Hello What the size of your / ? Mine is 1 Go, and I use only 300 mo, just conf and lib sbin bin If you have opt in your / I suggest to move it and doing a symlink like cd /; mv opt usr; ln -s usr/opt . so ... jakommo a écrit : Hi Listmembers, I have a problem the / Partition on my system

Re: [gentoo-user] Resize /

2006-11-16 Thread jakommo
On 11/16/06, geistteufel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello What the size of your / ? Mine is 1 Go, and I use only 300 mo, just conf and lib sbin bin If you have opt in your / I suggest to move it and doing a symlink like cd /; mv opt usr; ln -s usr/opt . so ... jakommo a écrit : Hi

Re: [gentoo-user] Resize /

2006-11-16 Thread Alex Schuster
jakommo writes: On 11/16/06, geistteufel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you have opt in your / I suggest to move it and doing a symlink like cd /; mv opt usr; ln -s usr/opt . For now I think maybe its better to make some new partitions and copy the stuff to them by using a live cd and then

Re: [gentoo-user] Resize /

2006-11-16 Thread jakommo
On 11/16/06, Alex Schuster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: jakommo writes: On 11/16/06, geistteufel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you have opt in your / I suggest to move it and doing a symlink like cd /; mv opt usr; ln -s usr/opt . For now I think maybe its better to make some new partitions