Hm, as far as I see there is not much data on your home-directory, so that you could copy the data to another partition, delete /dev/sda5 and set up a new partition with the new disk included. The new partition should be /dev/sda5 again after the rebuilt. I don't know much about the HW-raids, but in theory it will work (it's similar to HP raids). If your Raid-controller come ahead with a logical volume manager (maybe included to the controller-bios) it will be easy to do the reconfiguration. Greetings, Dietmar XxEDGExX wrote: > > We have a raid box from Raid Inc. It has the capability of doing logical > drive expansion. I'm somewhat confused as to how this works in our > particular setup. I figured someone on here could enlighten me. > > As far as Linux is concerned, it see our raid array as one device. I've > use this device and partitioned it. > > Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on > /dev/sda1 296M 26M 255M 9% / > /dev/sda5 28G 859K 26G 0% /home > /dev/sda9 197M 14K 187M 0% /tmp > /dev/sda6 1.9G 448M 1.4G 24% /usr > /dev/sda11 691M 99M 556M 15% /usr/local > /dev/sda7 972M 30M 892M 3% /var > /dev/sda8 486M 7.2M 454M 2% /usr/webservers > > Now, if I expand the logical device, WHERE will the extra space > end up? I'd like it to be placed in /home, but I just don't understand > how the raid array could be able to do this since it has no clue about my > partition scheme or the OS. > > Thanks > -jeremy > > http://www.xxedgexx.com | [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --------------------------------------------- > Y2K. We're all gonna die. -- A guess may be one solution but not the only one ;-) Dietmar Stein, Systemadministrator UNIX/Linux [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]
