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I have just added 2 146gb disks to an existing RAID5 system running Oracle Enterprise Linux 5.4.
I used Dells open manage software to rebuild the RAID which was successful although I cannot see the additional storage when I look on the system.
Basically how do I get Linux to show the new storage and then add it to an existing partition.
Last edited by Strangemartian; 08-16-2010 at 05:53 AM.
Have you rebooted since you added it? You can't modify the partitions of the disk the system booted off of, and expect the changes to show, without rebooting.
I have rebooted the box several times and the new storage will not show although I have not actually dared to changed anything on the file system yet.
Basically I have gained 272GB by adding the extra disks to the RAID and this shows in LVM but I do not know how to add this extra to the file system. Do I have to create a new mount point??
I built the server and several others but I have never had to add extra disks so am a little stuck.
I am not too fussed about extending an existing partition just adding a new one which would be the size of the storage gained.
Another check.....as you are using Dell, have you checked in the PERC's BIOS (ctrl-r during boot up) to see if the drives show up there in the RAID set?
Another check.....as you are using Dell, have you checked in the PERC's BIOS (ctrl-r during boot up) to see if the drives show up there in the RAID set?
Attached screenshots of RAID under the DELL management software and it is showing up all 6 disks, the original 4 plus the 2 extra that I added...
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