Date: Tue, 5 May 1998 16:35:25 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Karl Pielorz <kpielorz@tdx.co.uk>, =?iso-8859-1?Q?Patrik_=C5str=F6m?= <patrik.astrom@tv3.se> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Adding space to a CCD ! Message-ID: <19980505163525.P4777@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <354DAABD.57BA09D0@tdx.co.uk>; from Karl Pielorz on Mon, May 04, 1998 at 12:47:09PM %2B0100 References: <43A432602D33D111BA8F00805FA6FE132CC7A1@STK_FILE> <354DAABD.57BA09D0@tdx.co.uk>
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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
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