Hard drive upgrade

DotHQ · 04-03-2006, 07:17 AM

Here's the scenerio:
Dell 6650 server. 5 drives.
2 drives mirrored for OS - these will remain and are fine.

3 drives installed with Raid 5 - these drives are to small and I have to upgrade the array with three new 300 gig drives.

While I could reload the OS I prefer not to. The current 3 drives hold no data, just a couple of filesystems that were established at system build time.

What is the best way to replace the 3 drives?

DotHQ · 04-03-2006, 02:29 PM

Well, I'm going to wipe that array, install the new disks and configure the drives as raid 5. Initialize the drives and see what happens.
I've think this might work.
I'll post more when I know for sure....

DotHQ · 04-04-2006, 10:10 AM

It worked.
I was able to configure the new logical drive 1 without issue. Reboot the system. Format the device( mke2fs -j /dev/sdb1 ); then all I had to do was mount it.

Pretty cool. I'm a happy camper with about 600 additional gig to work with.