http://www.gnu.org/software/parted/index.shtml http://qtparted.sourceforge.net/
From the point of having Ghosted the data onto 300 GB partitions on the new drives, you could disable the RAID mirroring, resize them, and then rebuild the mirroring.
- Harold On Aug 20, 2007, at 1:56 PM, David Spencer, Internet Handyman wrote:
I'm hoping that somebody can help me by directing me to a step-by-step cookbook of some sort for what I'm trying to do. Here's the summary:We've got a Dell SC1425 1U server. The system has dual 300GB SATA drivesthat I've configured in a software RAID 1. It's running CentOS 4.5 and is pretty much up to date. We've also got Plesk installed on it and it's purpose to exist is to host websites.We recently got this idea to replace the 300GB drives with 500GB drives.My programmer and I thought that the best way to accomplish this would be to use Linux Ghost to copy the contents of the drives. So we pulled one of the 300's and replaced it with the 500. Then we ghosted the 300 to the 500. Next we replaced the 300 with the other 500 and used ghost again to copy the data on the first 500 to the second. We rebooted the system and it worked! Well, almost. The problem was that Linux Ghost did a fantastic job of duplicatingthe exact dimensions of the 300 drives onto the 500. So we had a systemwith partitions that were only 300GB in size. Obviously we wanted to take advantage of all that extra space. And that's where things went terribly wrong. We've tried a number of things from using Linux Ghost to expand the partition to using fdisk and dd to redefine the partitions and then copy the data from one of the 300's using an external USB 2.0 drive. Nothing works. Where did we go wrong? Your assistance is much appreciated, -- Dave Spencer, PageWeavers _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list vox-tech@lists.lugod.org http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
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