Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.
On Wed, May 23, 2007 at 02:50:51PM -0500, Kirby Bakken wrote: > > We have a pair of 80GB hard-drives in a drbd cluster, and we'll be replacing > them with two 500GB hard-drives. Can we just: > > 1) replace the secondary and invalidate/rsync it > 2) replace the primary, and invalidate/rsync it please talk about re-sync, not rsync, to avoid confusion with one of my favorite tools... > Or will we have to save all the data off to the side (or regenerate it later), > and do a total re-install? no. then, 3) make sure they are connected, go to the node with in "Connected Primary/Secondary", # drbdadm resize all I think, given the sequence of events, this should be enough already, but I may be wrong, so..., if there is no resync yet, go to the other node and # drbdadm resize all there too. now there should be a resync Primary -> Secondary of the part of the disk 80GB .. 500 GB. verify the size of drbd with "cat /proc/partitions" 4) once that resync is through (theoretically you can do it during the resync already, but I recommend to wait for it to finish) xfs_growfs /whereever (or resize2fs or pvresize whatever you use drbd for.) -- : Lars Ellenberg Tel +43-1-8178292-0 : : LINBIT Information Technologies GmbH Fax +43-1-8178292-82 : : Vivenotgasse 48, A-1120 Vienna/Europe http://www.linbit.com : __ please use the "List-Reply" function of your email client.