On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 3:59 PM, Neil Bothwick <n...@digimed.co.uk> wrote: > On Thu, 17 Nov 2011 12:34:14 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: > >> OK, so returning to your original response, you suggest increasing the >> size of each physical partition and then resizing each of the physical >> partitions independently? (/dev/sdwhatever instead of /dev/md6 >> directly?) >> >> Is there a reason or personal experience you have to not to resize the >> RAID-5 directly? > > Do you have separately partitioned drives with those partitions arranged > into single-partition arrays, or do you have one RAID device that is then > partitioned? > > If the latter, you should certainly work with the md device. > > I prefer to avoid all this confusion by creating a large, single > partition array that I use an an LVM physical volume.
Separately partitioned drives arranged into RAID arrays. I don't do LVM. Every time I look at the instructions for setting it up I fall asleep. Also, I have varying needs in terms of space, speed & redundancy, so I'm not clear that a single RAID of any type with LVM on top would have met my needs. - Mark
