On Monday 09 June 2003 5:10 pm, freeBSD wrote: > I have three 120GB disks and one 170GB disk. The first three is forming > a raid-5 volume using Vinum and the last one is just fooling around > without any purpose. > > Can I add this 170GB to the raid5 volume in any way at all? I do realise > that I will loose 50Gb, but that's better than not using it at all. >
from http://www.daemonnews.org/200002/vinum.html "Like striped plexes, RAID-5 plexes must have equal-sized subdisks and cannot currently be extended" from http://www.vinumvm.org/vinum/Future-directions.html "Extending striped and RAID-5 plexes is a slow complicated operation, but it is feasible." I am prepared, and desperately hope to be corrected on this but as far as I am aware it is only possible by backing up, recreating a new vinum configuration and restoring. As for losing 50gb I'll swap you a 120gb for the 170gb ;-) _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
