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12-11-2003, 03:28 PM	#1
linuxboy123 LQ Newbie Registered: Dec 2003 Posts: 8 Rep:	Upgrading hard drives on Software raid 1 boot drives. Has anybody ever tried this? I am using software raid (Debian , woody version with raidtools2) to mirror two 10GB ide drives. I wanted to upgrade my drives to 15GB drives by systematic replacing a 10GB with a 15GB drive partitioning it the same except for the my data partition which I put all the extra space. That partition is a LVM parition. I rebuilt the mirror and replaced the second 10GB with the 15GB and rebuilt again. All of this has worked fine. I understand that in raid 1 the size of the md devices is the size of the smallest partition in the device. On that premise I expected that after I did the final reboot after syncing the two 15GB that I would see the space added to that one data partition. Especially because that partition was using LVM I expected it to be transparent to the filesystems etc.. Any thoughts. Thanks for any thoughts...

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