Re: RAID, Vinum and different disksizes
On Tuesday 10 June 2003 2:02 am, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: On Monday, 9 June 2003 at 17:10:37 +0200, 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. I do realise that I will loose 50Gb, but that's better than not using it at all. You can make another volume out of that. Really? Every time I think I have understand some of the vinum man page, along comes groggy to bugger me up.so I could label a disk with a vinum partition and a freebsd partion (if I can figure out the maths correctly)? f: 296960000 4.2BSD 0 00 # (Cyl.0 - 29460*) h: 1020280 29696000 vinum # (Cyl. 29460*- 30472*) c: 307162800 unused0 0# (Cyl.0 - 30472*) sort of like that ? ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RAID, Vinum and different disksizes
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. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: RAID, Vinum and different disksizes
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/22/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]
Re: RAID, Vinum and different disksizes
On Mon, Jun 09, 2003 at 05:10:37PM +0200 or thereabouts, freeBSD seemed to write: 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. Sorry, no. On the other hand, if the first three were a concat plex, you *could* do it, and you wouldn't even lose 50gb! Your best bet is either: a) mount the 170gb on /usr2 or something b) backup the data on the raid5, restore to a concat HTH, -- Josh ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: RAID, Vinum and different disksizes
On Monday, 9 June 2003 at 17:10:37 +0200, 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? There's nothing (much) stopping you from adding another 120 MB subdisk to your RAID-5 plex. I think you'll have to do an attach -f. You *will* lose the contents of the plex (in fact, you'll have to initialize all four subdisks). You'll have to back up and restore your data. I do realise that I will loose 50Gb, but that's better than not using it at all. You can make another volume out of that. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply or reply to the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address and phone numbers pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
