Mike McGrath wrote:
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[mailto:fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Philip
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Sent: Thursday, July 28, 2005 4:06 PM
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Subject: Newbie question on adding RAID capacity
I initially did a fairly stock install onto a K8M800 type
motherboard (AMD 64 XP 2800+ processor, 8237R/K8M800 type
chipset) with the SATA raid capability. I'll soon be adding
another drive as soon as I can receive it (it's one of those
Maxtor Diamondmax drives that have been going like hotcakes).
My question is... Do I need to do anything in particular to "widen"
the raid stripe and add the drive to the volume? Will the
filesystem be "re-interleaved" across two drives? Or do I
have to do something painful like save to DVD, add the new
drive, create new filesystems, and then restore from DVD?
Thanks,
-Philip
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I'm not 100% sure about what raid you have setup, I would assume
software raid? Either way its not going to be pretty, perhaps you
should look into LVM? It would have made this sort of thing very easy.
Either way if what you have is important to you, back it up before you
do anything.
-Mike
It's the hardware RAID that comes with the 8237's capabilities... (and the
configuration seems to be at least partly in BIOS setup).
I'm using LVM, since it's part of the standard setup. I wasn't sure,
though,
if LVM waits until the first physical volume is filled up before
creating new
files on the second one, or if it automatically interlaces, or what...
-Philip
