[DRBD-user] Migrate data to bigger disks

Heiko Petzsch petzsch at gts-systems.de
Thu Feb 26 11:05:16 CET 2009

Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.


Hello Jürgen,

> You need to remove the ext3 journal first. Then resize. And after
> that  add the journal again.
> Remove: tune2fs -O ^has_journal /dev/drbd0
> Add:    tune2fs -j /dev/drbd0
> 
> After my experience I looked at
> http://www.howtoforge.com/linux_resizing_ext3_partitions
> - seems fairly complete.

The example includes resizing the partition with the help of fdisk - do I have 
to do that too ?

> > ... but as the data on the disk is rather important for our
> company,  
> > I would appreciate some
> > confirmation that I'm not going to destroy anything.
> I hope you have backup - in spite of drbd. ;-)

I've got all of my data on a external backup disk, but copying everything 
takes several hours, and I'd prefer to avoid this ;).

Thanks for your help !

Heiko

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Heiko Petzsch
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