[PLUG] Increasing a hardware RAID size and growing a Linux filesystem
Aaron Burt
aaron at speakeasy.org
Tue Nov 18 09:55:02 UTC 2003
On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 09:34:47PM -0800, Matt Alexander wrote:
> I would like to add a few additional disks to an existing harware RAID
> array. The Adaptec controller should handle this fine for me,
Wow. I've never seen a RAID controller that'll add discs to an existing
array without destroying the data. The Adaptecs I used at my last job
wouldn't do this. In your shoes, I'd plan the job assuming the data
will be destroyed and back it up before starting. If I don't have to
restore, then the job's done sooner than expected.
> but what effect would this have on a Linux ext3 filesystem that's
> currently using the array? I'm assuming the Linux filesystem will
> only know about what it had previously been formatted to use.
Correct.
> Or will things crash and burn? If things don't die, is it possible to
> resize the Linux partition to use the new additional space?
Yup. Others have mentioned resize2fs.
> Or do I need to copy the data elsewhere, rebuild the filesystem at the
> larger size, and copy the data back?
Even if you think you don't have to, plan on doing that. Have a viable,
tested backup, and enough downtime to use it. Which is a good idea in
any case.
Big fat IDE discs are cheap, compared to downtime and lost data.
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