Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2000 10:46:06 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Martin Bayley <martin@soundfirm.com.au> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: vinum and adding a sd to a concat plex Message-ID: <20000803104606.G87263@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <000c01bffce7$bffc2140$0300a8c0@martinw2k>; from martin@soundfirm.com.au on Thu, Aug 03, 2000 at 11:11:26AM %2B1000 References: <000c01bffce7$bffc2140$0300a8c0@martinw2k>
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On Thursday, 3 August 2000 at 11:11:26 +1000, Martin Bayley wrote: > Using 4.0-release. > > I would appreciate if anyone could offer some advice on the method of > extending an existing concat plex. > > I have performed the operation on a test system: adding an additional 18Gb > drive to an existing single 18Gb sd concat plex (/dev/vinum/test). The > vinum config part goes very well (doing a create, define the new drive, > adding the sd with an offset, performing an init on the new subdisk is > required it seems for the plex to be consistent and everything to be flagged > up), and vinum acknowledges that I have 2 sd for a total plex / volume > capacity as expected. My test data is not lost. OK. > > However I'm stuck on the next bit, as mounting the plex and doing a df > indicates that the /dev/vinum/test volume is still the old size of the > single drive. No, that shows you the size of the file system, not the volume. > How do I get the capacity to be recognised here without performing a > newfs -v /dev/vinum/test? Sorry, you don't. Currently we don't support extending the size of a ufs file system. This is a documented restriction, but it's not a vinum problem. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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