Bill, that's awesome. Still a bit of shorthand but right along the lines of what I needed. In #4, "hotraid add" I'm assuming that you mean to use the mdadm utility to add the new RAID member? On #5, "install grub," I also assume that I use the grub utility on the working system to point things to the right places. Sounds good - I'm going for it!
-- Dave --- Bill Broadly wrote --- I also figured I'd mentioned that with a mirror it's even easier. I just did this to migrate from 2 250GB disks to 2 500GB disks. Something along the lines of: #1 Pull disk B, put it in a safe place in case this goes poorly. #2 Insert 500 GB disk B #3 partition disk b #4 hotraid add #5 install grub #6 wait for raid sync #7 shutdown, put 500 disk B in slot A and new 500GB disk in slot b #8 partition disk b #9 hotsync b #10 install grub #11 resize2fs and/or lvextend No need for partition magic, and most importantly if it goes poorly you have an original disk to use. Partition magic and friends often work, but I wouldn't want to try them without a backup. You have a backup... right? So there's potentially 3 things to change: 1) Software RAID 2) LVM (pvresize and/or lvextend) 3) Actual filesystem (resize2fs or friends) _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
