Re: Cloning a gmirrored hard drive

2008-08-25 Thread Ivan Voras
Sasa Stupar wrote: Hi! My situation: I have a server with FBSD 7 installed with two 40 GB disks in RAID 1 (gmirror) config. Now I have noticed the lack of space on the drive so I am thinking to change these disks for two 160 GB. What is the best way to clone the main hard disk in raid 1

Re: Cloning a gmirrored hard drive

2008-08-25 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Hi! My situation: I have a server with FBSD 7 installed with two 40 GB disks in RAID 1 (gmirror) config. Now I have noticed the lack of space on the drive so I am thinking to change these disks for two 160 GB. What is the best way to clone the main hard disk in raid 1 config? Is gmirror remove

Re: Cloning a gmirrored hard drive

2008-08-25 Thread Julien Cigar
Stupid question: can't you use growfs on the existing gmirror (after replace /dev/oneofdisk, resync, replace /dev/otherdisk, resync) ? Is it mandatory to create a *new* gmirror ? Thanks On Mon, 2008-08-25 at 14:37 +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote: Hi! My situation: I have a server with FBSD 7

Re: Cloning a gmirrored hard drive

2008-08-25 Thread Christopher Cowart
Sasa Stupar wrote: My situation: I have a server with FBSD 7 installed with two 40 GB disks in RAID 1 (gmirror) config. Now I have noticed the lack of space on the drive so I am thinking to change these disks for two 160 GB. What is the best way to clone the main hard disk in raid 1 config?

Re: Cloning a gmirrored hard drive

2008-08-25 Thread John Nielsen
On Monday 25 August 2008 11:50:41 am Julien Cigar wrote: Stupid question: can't you use growfs on the existing gmirror (after replace /dev/oneofdisk, resync, replace /dev/otherdisk, resync) ? Is it mandatory to create a *new* gmirror ? There is no way to resize a gmirror provider without

Cloning a gmirrored hard drive

2008-08-24 Thread Sasa Stupar
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi! My situation: I have a server with FBSD 7 installed with two 40 GB disks in RAID 1 (gmirror) config. Now I have noticed the lack of space on the drive so I am thinking to change these disks for two 160 GB. What is the best way to clone the main