Re: [gentoo-user] Unable to expand ext4 partition

2022-02-06 Thread Wols Lists
On 06/02/2022 00:47, Mark Knecht wrote: If it's a WD Red Plus on the label then it's CMR and good. If it's WD Red without the "Plus" then it's SMR and WD has said don't use them for this purpose. It's not impossible to run the WD Red in a RAID, but they tend to fail when resilvering. If it

Re: [gentoo-user] Unable to expand ext4 partition

2022-02-05 Thread Mark Knecht
If it's a WD Red Plus on the label then it's CMR and good. If it's WD Red without the "Plus" then it's SMR and WD has said don't use them for this purpose. It's not impossible to run the WD Red in a RAID, but they tend to fail when resilvering. If it resilvers correctly then it will probably be OK

Re: [gentoo-user] Unable to expand ext4 partition

2022-02-05 Thread Wol
On 05/02/2022 22:16, Julien Roy wrote: I didn't - I typically use the Gentoo and Arch wiki when I need information, but will keep that in mind. I noticed, on that page, that there's a big bold warning about using post-2019 WD Red drives. Sadly, that's exactly what I am doing, my array is

Re: [gentoo-user] Unable to expand ext4 partition

2022-02-05 Thread Wols Lists
On 05/02/2022 19:37, Julien Roy wrote: At this point, I am considering transfering all my data to another volume, and re-creating the RAID using mdadm. You know about the raid wiki https://raid.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Linux_Raid ? (Edited by yours truly ...) Cheers, Wol

Re: [gentoo-user] Unable to expand ext4 partition

2022-02-05 Thread Wol
On 05/02/2022 17:43, Julien Roy wrote: Hello, I've been running an LVM RAID 5 on my home lab for a while, and recently it's been getting awfully close to 100% full, so I decided to buy a new drive to add to it, however, growing an LVM RAID is more complicated than I thought! I found very few