Re: RAID5 fill up?

2006-09-16 Thread Bill Davidsen
Mr. James W. Laferriere wrote: Kuca , Thank you for posting this snippet . Neil , Might changing , can be given as max which means to choose the largest size that To can be given as 'max' which means to choose the largest size that help

RAID5 fill up?

2006-09-08 Thread Lars Schimmer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi! I´ve got a software RAiD5 with 6 250GB HDs. Now I changed one disk after another to a 400GB HD and resynced the raid5 after each change. Now the RAID5 has got 6 400GB HDs and still uses only 6*250GB space. How can I grow the md0 device to use

RAID5 fill up?

2006-09-08 Thread Lars Schimmer
Hi! I´ve got a software RAiD5 with 6 250GB HDs. Now I changed one disk after another to a 400GB HD and resynced the raid5 after each change. Now the RAID5 has got 6 400GB HDs and still uses only 6*250GB space. How can I grow the md0 device to use 6*400GB? MfG, Lars Schimmer --

Re: RAID5 fill up?

2006-09-08 Thread Michael Tokarev
Lars Schimmer wrote: Hi! I´ve got a software RAiD5 with 6 250GB HDs. Now I changed one disk after another to a 400GB HD and resynced the raid5 after each change. Now the RAID5 has got 6 400GB HDs and still uses only 6*250GB space. How can I grow the md0 device to use 6*400GB? mdadm --grow

Re: RAID5 fill up?

2006-09-08 Thread Lars Schimmer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Michael Tokarev wrote: Lars Schimmer wrote: Hi! I´ve got a software RAiD5 with 6 250GB HDs. Now I changed one disk after another to a 400GB HD and resynced the raid5 after each change. Now the RAID5 has got 6 400GB HDs and still uses only

Re: RAID5 fill up?

2006-09-08 Thread Luca Berra
On Fri, Sep 08, 2006 at 02:26:31PM +0200, Lars Schimmer wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Michael Tokarev wrote: Lars Schimmer wrote: Hi! I´ve got a software RAiD5 with 6 250GB HDs. Now I changed one disk after another to a 400GB HD and resynced the raid5 after each

Re: RAID5 fill up?

2006-09-08 Thread Lars Schimmer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Michael Tokarev wrote: Lars Schimmer wrote: [] mdadm --grow is your friend. Oh, damn, right. I was focussed on --grow to add a new HD to the RAID But isn´t there a switch to grow to max possible value? Do I always have to search for the

Re: RAID5 fill up?

2006-09-08 Thread Mr. James W. Laferriere
Hello Neil Luca , On Fri, 8 Sep 2006, Luca Berra wrote: On Fri, Sep 08, 2006 at 02:26:31PM +0200, Lars Schimmer wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Michael Tokarev wrote: Lars Schimmer wrote: Hi! I´ve got a software RAiD5 with 6 250GB HDs. Now I changed one disk