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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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Neil Bothwick |
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"You know how dumb the average person is? Well, statistically, half of |
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them are even dumber than that" - Lewton, P.I. |
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