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, Feb 25, 2009 at 09:50:19AM +0100, Heiko Petzsch wrote: > Hi, > > I hope that my question isn't too stupid, but I searched the documentation and couldn't find > an answer... > > I've been running DRBD 0.7.18 on a production system for a bit more than two years now, > and everything has worked fine. Now we need to increase disk space, from 250 GB on each > node to 1500 GB. > > I thought that I could simply replace my disk on node 2, let DRDB care about synchronization > of the data, then switch primary and secondary node, and replace the disk on node 1. This > fails already within the first step, after replacing the disk DRDB complains: "Meta device too > small". > > What is the recommended procedure to migrate data to larger disks ? exactly as you describe it. though you then need to "drbdadm resize" it, afterwards. how big, exactly, is the new disk? (cat /proc/partitions) do you try with external or internal meta data? -- : Lars Ellenberg : LINBIT | Your Way to High Availability : DRBD/HA support and consulting http://www.linbit.com DRBD® and LINBIT® are registered trademarks of LINBIT, Austria. __ please don't Cc me, but send to list -- I'm subscribed