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On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 3:59 PM, Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk> wrote: |
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> On Thu, 17 Nov 2011 12:34:14 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: |
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>> OK, so returning to your original response, you suggest increasing the |
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>> size of each physical partition and then resizing each of the physical |
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>> partitions independently? (/dev/sdwhatever instead of /dev/md6 |
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>> directly?) |
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>> Is there a reason or personal experience you have to not to resize the |
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>> RAID-5 directly? |
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> Do you have separately partitioned drives with those partitions arranged |
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> into single-partition arrays, or do you have one RAID device that is then |
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> partitioned? |
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> If the latter, you should certainly work with the md device. |
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> I prefer to avoid all this confusion by creating a large, single |
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> partition array that I use an an LVM physical volume. |
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Separately partitioned drives arranged into RAID arrays. |
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I don't do LVM. Every time I look at the instructions for setting it |
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up I fall asleep. Also, I have varying needs in terms of space, speed |
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& redundancy, so I'm not clear that a single RAID of any type with LVM |
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on top would have met my needs. |
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- Mark |
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