Re: Geom Vinum backwards compatible?

From: Marko Raiha <mjraiha_at_fade.pp.fi>
Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2004 18:10:41 +0300
Hi,

On Wed, Oct 13, 2004 at 12:28:22PM +0200, Lukas Ertl wrote:
> On Wed, 13 Oct 2004, Stijn Hoop wrote:
> >I haven't tried this with geom_vinum, but using the old vinum I could 
> >grow the BSD partition that contained my vinum "drive", then restart 
> >vinum which would recognize more free space on it's "drive" and then add 
> >another subdisk on that same drive. I've done this around a year ago, so 
> >this might not work exactly as described but it is possible.
> 
> That should work with geom_vinum as well, although I haven't tried yet.

Is it possible to grow vinumized BSD partition only from the end or also
from the beginning?
 
> >Even more likely to work is just adding another BSD partition on your
> >bigger drive, add that as a new vinum drive and then add
> >subdisks/plexes on top.
> 
> That's the way to go, but just make sure you have only one vinum drive per 
> disk.

I have more than one vinum drive per disk and thats why I'm asking about
growing vinumized partition to get rid of other than one of them before
upgrading from 5.2.1 to 5.3.

Thanks,
-- 
Marko Räihä
Received on Wed Oct 13 2004 - 13:10:44 UTC

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