On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 06:49:38PM -0500, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 07:51:29AM +1100, Alex Samad wrote: > > my rule of thumb is to always have atleast 2 partitions on the first 2 [snip] > > Some hardware raids can do lots of things. Some can do no resizing at > all. I have certainly used hardware raid cerads where adding a disk to a > raid5 and expanding it was no problem. It just did it in the background, > and when done you could reboot the system and the disk was suddenly bigger > and software could do whatever it wanted to resize to the new larger disk. > It also dealt with moving to larger disks in the raid by rebuilding one > drive at a time, and then when all where replaced you could increase > the raid to the size of the new disks. Interesting, well I guess you get what you pay for (presuming the more you pay the better the card and the more features), I haven't seen any hardware based raid controllers that allow for increasing in size of the underlying disk's. > > -- > Len Sorensen > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-amd64-REQUEST@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org > > -- Life is too short to be taken seriously. -- Oscar Wilde
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