Hi Richard,
This sounds like the kind of crazy thing that I might try. I don't think that you can do it without about 1/2 hours downtime. After you have got the new disks running you need to edit the partition tables to make the partitions larger. This might not work, it could break the raid and take your server down. Recently I've taken to only running Blueonyx in a virtual environment because it makes all this kind of thing so much easier. If you don't want to (pay) to use Aventurine, try Proxmox. You should be able to migrate your existing server to a vps on a Proxmox box using your new disks. Being on a virtual environment has big down-the-line advantages for backup, restore and migration. Regards Jeffrey On Sun, 2 Jan 2011 18:37:28 -0000, "Richard Morgan" wrote: First of all, Happy New Year - it sounds like 2011 is going to be an exciting year for BO/BX. Is there any way to increase the disks in use on a live server without a complete rebuild and transferring all the sites? I am hoping it would be possible to do something like swap secondary RAID disks to the larger capacity, let it rebuild, move this to primary, put another large disk is as secondary and rebuild again. I've tried this on a test server, but I cannot find how to get linux to see the larger disks or the extra capacity beyond the size of the original disk size. I guess this is possible, but I've missed an important step somewhere. Any ideas or pointers would be greatly appreciated. Regards, Richard
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