Replace RAID 0 array drives for bigger ones

[Ugo Bellavance]

Patrick_Boyd at dell.com wrote:
> Yes with a RAID 1 it is possible. 

How do I proceed, can I resize the RAID volume, or must I create a new 
volume, that will be mounted seperately?

> 
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:linux-poweredge-bounces at dell.com] On Behalf Of Ugo Bellavance
> Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2006 2:46 PM
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> Subject: Re: Replace RAID 0 array drives for bigger ones
> 
> 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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