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April 14th, 2008 09:00
Extending a Logical Drive to use an extra disk
Hi,
I have searched these forums and havent been able to find a suitable answer.
My Setup
I have a Dell PowerEdge 2600 which uses a Dell Perc 4 RAID controller. I have 3 x 36GB drives configured as Array-00, Raid 5.
The server runs RHAS3 and has now ran out of space on one of the volumes. I would of liked to have reduce the / volume and extend the /data volume to use this extra space, but there I cannot identify an (safe) method of reducing an EXT3 filesystem.
So I would like add another 36GB drive to the array-00, extend the logical drive and once the space has been made available to the OS, extend the /data volume using extendfs.
However, after searching these forums, googling the question, reviewing the documentation, and "having a look" at the Perc commands available, i cannot see how to extend the array to use the 4th drive and then extend the logical volume.
Can anybody tell me if this is possible and how I can do this please.
Thanks, Parker.
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Parker.
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April 14th, 2008 11:00
The only option I can find in the documentation is use spanning - creating a second array and then spanning the logical disk accross both arrays. But as I'm only adding a single disk, I would have to create a non-raid array and then span the logical disk across the RAID 5 array and a non-raded array, thus removing any redundancy.
Any suggestions or am i missing something here?