On Wed, 2004-04-14 at 03:04, Michael Bellears wrote: > Alvin Oga wrote: --snip-- > Ok - Im running Reiser...problem is, when the new drive is added to the > array in Top Tools (And Array Size subsequently increases), it is not > reflected once in Debian - Would a partition utility re-create the > prtitions, and then magically give access to the additional space?
Just because the partition grows, it doesn't mean that the filesystem will grow as well. You can have a 10 MB filesystem on a 300 GB partition. What you need to do is grow the filesystem. > > > > - your filesystem must be able to grow across disks > > Wouldn't Reiser just be seeing the array as a single drive though? Sorry, I missed the beginning of the thread, but I'm assuming you're using a hardware RAID board? If that's the case, then yes, pretty much everything on the system will see the array as one disk. As long as you're using a hardware board, and you can somehow dynamically increase the size of the partition, I don't see you having a problem. The only possible complication is that the filesystem must be unmounted before it can be resized. So if you need constant access to the filesystem, I don't think there's much you can do. But if you can afford a minute or two of downtime for the drive, it should be no problem. Just use resize_reiserfs and resize the fs to fit the partition. Hope that helps. -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail preferred. You can get my public key from any of the pgp.net keyservers. Key ID: A6D24837
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