Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2007 17:48:29 -0500 From: "illoai@gmail.com" <illoai@gmail.com> To: uchu.1@gaiahost.coop Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Increase Disk Size in a gmirror RAID1 Message-ID: <d7195cff0708261548o14e9241dr93fbdbecf9b15ed7@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <46D1F801.7080208@gaiahost.coop> References: <46D1B1C9.7060606@gaiahost.coop> <46D1F801.7080208@gaiahost.coop>
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On 26/08/07, Charles Uchu Strader <uchu.1@gaiahost.coop> wrote: > So it looks like I came up with a resolution myself on this. Here's a > post for posterity or any comments: > > > > > > What I've done so far is to forget da1 from the gm0 mirror, restart, > > and put the 73GB into drive bay two. But now I'm at bit lost at the > > process to follow to achieve my desired result. I'm thinking > > something like fdisk, bsdlabel, newfs on the new da1 73GB drive. Then > > dd or dump/restore from da0/gm0 to da1. Then shutdown, remove the > > 36GB da0, put in the second 73GB drive, boot and them get gmirror to > > sync things from the 73GB drive. > > > > So my resolution to upsizing the disk was to utilize gmirror (rather > than dump/restore or dd). Here's what I did: > > 1) Sync the existing smaller disk (da0 / 36GB) to the new larger disk > (da1 / 73GB) now in the machine using gmirror. > > 2) Remove da0 from the gmirror: > > # gmirror remove gm0 da0 > > 3) Edit /etc/fstab so that after the next reboot it will boot as if only > a single disk, instead of the gmirror /dev/mirror . Also comment out: > geom_mirror_load="YES" in /boot/loader.conf > > 4) Shutdown and power down. Take out 36GB from drive bay 1. Take 73GB > from drive bay 2 and put into drive bay 1. Start the server back up and > da0 is now the 73GB drive. > > 5) Now, since gmirror applied its slice and disklabel partition, > checking disk usage shows that the system sees the disk still as a 36GB > and the /web partition I wanted to increase was still at 18GB, instead > of the 51GB I needed. To fix that I did the following: > > # fdisk -u /dev/da0 (just following the standard prompts, only needing > to change the total byte size from from 71119692 (36GB) to 143363997 > (73GB) when that prompt came up) > > # disklabel -e /dev/da0s1 (updated the disk labels so that c: had the > new 143363997 value and so that g: (the /web partition) had the new > value 110491549. > > # umount /web > > # newfs -U /dev/da0s1g > > # mount /dev/da0s1g /web > > 6) Edit the /etc/fstab to restore it to the gmirror style references, > instead of single disk. And uncomment out: : geom_mirror_load="YES" in > /boot/loader.conf > > Then also: > > # gmirror label -v -b round-robin gm0 /dev/da0 > > 7) Shutdown and power down. Add the second new 73GB drive into bay 2. > Restart the server and once booted back in get both bigger drives in > sync with gmirror and everything is good to go! > > # gmirror insert gm0 da1 > > ... > > (Caveat) I've only done this on a test machine with no activity and no > data in the /web partition. Before I do this on a live server, I'll > probably run the whole process again with data in /web and see how it > all does. > > Any comments or thoughts about this process, would love feedback. Given your restricted circumstances, I would probably have yanked one half of the old mirror (obviously after a careful backup*) put in one of the new disks, created a second (now "degraded" mirror), do whatever slice and partition business needed to be done, dump/restore, modify fstab, shutdown, yank other half of old mirror, insert new disk, boot, add to mirror, sync (hopefully). Hotswap would be really super, though. Maybe saving you rebooting at all. Also, if drive cabling were sufficient (and controllers) you could just let it all hang out while you moved everything, and then tidied up once everything was copacetic. * I say I would, but in reality, I would probably just wing it. . . . And suffer. -- --
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