I've done something very similar on a 2950 with the same PERC 5/i. I replaced 6 drives in a RAID5 array one at a time and let each rebuild (5 array disks + hotspare). You will probably want to take each disk offline in OMSA rather than just pulling them abruptly. When I was done I was able to create a second Virtual Disk (RAID5 array) in OMSA (I used web interface).
You probably won't be able to grow your current virtual disk (I couldn't with RAID5 but I haven't tried RAID1)... But at least you can move /home or whatever partition(s) needs more space to the new VirtualDisk. As far as trusting PERC to rebuild... I'd definitely make a backup first but if you do it right you should be fine :) -Andy > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:linux-poweredge- > [email protected]] On Behalf Of Fabio Catunda > Sent: Monday, April 19, 2010 11:32 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Hot disk change. > > Hi, > > I have a "PowerEdge 1950" with a "PERC 5/i Integrated" controller on > "RAID-1" with two "232.25GB" disks. > > I need some more disk space, so I bought two 2TB disks. > > What I would like to know is if it's possible to replace one HD at a > time, trusting the controller to sync all data with no loss!? > > The OS is a Debian Linux with ext3 fs, so after changing both disks I > could use resize2fs to use the extra capacity. > > Anyone already tried something like that? > > Any tip is appreciated. > > Thanks, > > Fábio Catunda. > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-PowerEdge mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge > Please read the FAQ at http://lists.us.dell.com/faq _______________________________________________ Linux-PowerEdge mailing list [email protected] https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge Please read the FAQ at http://lists.us.dell.com/faq
