Replace RAID 0 array drives for bigger ones

[Ugo Bellavance]

Adam Williams wrote:
> no that is not possible.  if you have /boot on its own partition and 
> have 2 drive bays available, you could convert the 72G raid 0 to LVM, 
> then add the two 146G drives and have them as LVM and add them to your 
> current filesystem.
> 
> I wouldn't reccomend raid 0 though as there is no redundancy...you lose 
> a drive and you lose all your data.


Sorry, I meant RAID 1 (Mirror).

> 
> Ugo Bellavance wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> 	We are using a LSI Logic MegaRAID 521S under linux.  We have 2x36 GB 
>> HDD in the server and we'd like to replace them with bigger capacity drives.
>>
>> Would it be possible to:
>>
>> - Purchase 2 146 Go drives
>> - Remove one 36 Go drive, replace it with one 146 Go drive
>> - Wait for the array to rebuild
>> - Do the same with the second drive
>> - Tell the array to use all HDD space available (stretch from 36 GB to 
>> 146 GB)
>>
>> Is that possible?
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> ugo
>>
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