[DRBD-user] disk size

[Lars Ellenberg]

/ 2004-02-12 19:13:07 +0100
\ Andreas Huck:
> On Thursday 12 February 2004 14:12, Lars Ellenberg wrote:
> [...]
> > > > Can I change the disk-size parameter to say 10G (in drbd.conf) so that
> > > > sync time is reduced and later when I need more space, increase it?
> > > > Will there be any problem if I proceed this way?
> > >
> > > the disk-size in drbd.conf just needs to be larger or equal to the size
> > > of your filesystem on top of it. So if you use reiserfs, for example, you
> > > may do the following:
> > >
> > > 1) stop heartbeat on both nodes (/proc/drbd shows both as secondary)
> > > 2) drbdsetup /dev/nb0 primary  (on node A)
> > > 2) resize_reiserfs -s 10G /dev/nb0 (on node A)
> > >    Beware: shrinking is experimental. If its a new system, just
> > >    create a 10G filesystem (and a filesystem which allows to enlarge it).
> > > 3) drbdsetup /dev/nb0 secondary
> > > 4) Comment out the original (or final) disk-size and set it to 10G in
> > >    your /etc/drbd.conf (hm, don't know whether it understands the G,
> > >    just copy-n-past $((10*1024*1024)) from your bash :-)
> >
> > uhm. please do 4) before  2),
> > and make sure that the new device size shows up in drbdsetup /dev/nbX show
> 
> if the original (final) size was larger than 10G than resizing (shrinking) the
> filesystem (2) before shrinking the (drbd) disk is advisable, or do I get 
> something wrong here?  If I make the drbd disk smaller before resizing the
> filesystem properly to the smaller size than I wouldn't be able to access
> all of the filesystem via /dev/nbX anymore.
> Of course, if I increase the filesystem I should increase /dev/nbX first.

Exactly. I missed that you were going to shrink it ...

	Lars