[aklug] Re: RAID Silliness

From: CLAY SCOTT <rudeboy@gci.net>
Date: Fri Jan 21 2011 - 18:00:05 AKST

Woops, RAID 5. Everything in Palimsest shows a single 10TB ext4 partition? Any pointers on how to determine that for certain and expand the filesystem if necessary should that be the case?

Clay

----- Original Message -----
From: Jeremy Austin <jhaustin@gmail.com>
Date: Friday, January 21, 2011 5:08 pm
Subject: [aklug] Re: RAID Silliness
Cc: aklug@aklug.org

> On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 4:58 PM, CLAY SCOTT <rudeboy@gci.net> wrote:
>
> > Two days later when it was done everything in Palimpsest shows a
> 6 device=
> , 10TB array, but when I mount the array it still shows the same
> full 7.2TB=
> capacity. I'm not sure if I missed a step or what, but now I'm a
> little af=
> raid to screw with it too much for fear of losing it completely.
> >
> > What did i forget?
>
> Expanding the array expands the 'physical' media available to the file
> system. What file system are you running? Usually file system must be
> expanded as well; I've done this with md 5 + ext3. In some
> implementations the partition size must first be enlarged as well.
>
> Are you using lvm? I'm assuming you're just using md since you didn't
> mention what underlying raid you're using.
>
> Just my $.02,
> jermudgeon
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