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Hi! Need opinions on my project. Am about to expand my storage and all partitions on the logical drive as well. Question, is there a way for me not to reformat all partitions? or my only choice is to do backup then expand the whole logical drive then do necessary partitioning then restore. Thanks
Distribution: Solaris 11.4, Oracle Linux, Mint, Debian/WSL
Posts: 9,789
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What are the logical drives you are talking about ?
How many disks do you have ?
Do you plan to add more ?
How are they partitioned (prtvtoc) ?
Is there unused space somewhere ?
What are the logical drives you are talking about ?
- Those that are being initialized on the storage side. Can be configured as NRAID, RAID1, RAID0 and RAID5.
How many disks do you have ?
- 9 disks, 146GB.
Do you plan to add more ?
- Yes, am planning to add (2) 146GB.
How are they partitioned (prtvtoc) ?
- It was configured RAID5 for all disks and has 6 partitions.
Is there unused space somewhere ?
- Nope.
Distribution: CentOS, RHEL, Solaris 10, AIX, HP-UX
Posts: 731
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I checked the SE 3310 documentation at oracle site here which explains, that changing the number of disks for a logical drive requires to delete and recreated the logical drive. So there seems to be only the possibility to backup your complete data, delete all partitions and the logical drive and recreate it including your new 2 disk drives.
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