Date: Tue, 5 May 1998 01:14:13 -0700 (PDT) From: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: Karl Pielorz <kpielorz@tdx.co.uk>, =?iso-8859-1?Q?Patrik_=C5str=F6m?= <patrik.astrom@tv3.se>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG, terry@whistle.com Subject: Re: Adding space to a CCD ! Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95.980505011214.18134D-100000@current1.whistle.com> In-Reply-To: <19980505163525.P4777@freebie.lemis.com>
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One slight correction there greg.. terry pointed us at a program that expands UFS by adding cylinder groups. Maybe it (the mail) is in the archives somewhere. if not I've cc'd him. On Tue, 5 May 1998, Greg Lehey wrote: > On Mon, 4 May 1998 at 12:47:09 +0100, Karl Pielorz wrote: > > Patrik Åström wrote: > >> > >> Hi ! > >> > >> Is it possible to add a drive or a partion to a CCD without needing to > >> "rebuild" everything from scratch ?. > >> > >> I have a 4 GB CCD that's almost full and I would now like to add a > >> another 2 GB drive, but it would be great > >> if I could just add the drive and not need to re-partion it... > >> > >> Most grateful for any hints or suggestions... > > > > I used CCD's extensively on my system... The bad news is that they can't be > > 'built on the fly', you will need to backup the data on your existing CCD - > > add the new drive, reformat - and restore the data... > > > > Greg Lehey is working on a replacement driver for CCD which may let you do > > this in the future, no doubt if he sees this message he'll reply as > > well ;-) > > Correct. See http://www.lemis.com/vinum.html for more details of > vinum. It will allow expansion of concatenated plexes, but I > currently don't have any plans for direct reorganization of striped > and RAID5 plexes. The feature is somewhat limited, since ufs > currently doesn't allow expansion. > > Greg > -- > See complete headers for address and phone numbers > finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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