[DRBD-user] Swaping drbd harddrive for bigger size

Groups Account junk at lexoncom.com
Wed Sep 29 18:44:32 CEST 2010

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this does not tell me too much , atleast i dont get it
my new drive will have bigger partitions and i was hoping i could 
replace the drive on the secondary resource so it would copy from 
primary and them replace primarty so it would copy from secondary?


On 09/29/2010 10:11 AM, Groups Account wrote:
>  i guess this is last time i will ask
> anyone?
>
> if not i will have to rebuild new harddrives and restore from the backup
>
> On 09/06/2010 02:23 PM, Groups Account wrote:
>> So nobody know how to swap the drives for bigger ones with drbd?
>>
>> On 08/26/2010 10:50 AM, Groups Account wrote:
>>> On 08/04/2010 04:23 PM, Groups Account wrote:
>>>> Currently I use 160G harddrives for drbd resources.
>>>> Those are sata hds with 3 partitions, one for meta data, 2 for drbd 
>>>> resource data.
>>>> I want to swap those drives to 1T.
>>>> How do i do that?
>>>> Can I simply:
>>>> - shutdown the secondary resource
>>>> - replaced the drive
>>>> - reformat with bigger partitions
>>>> - do i have to format again as drbd?
>>>>
>>>> What are the steps?
>>>> Are there any guides explaining how to do that?
>>>>
>>>> thx
>>>>
>>>> Bart
>>>>
>>>> the resource is configured as:
>>>>
>>>> resource r0 {
>>>>   protocol C;
>>>>   startup { wfc-timeout 0; degr-wfc-timeout     120; }
>>>>   disk { on-io-error detach; } # or panic, ...
>>>>   net {}
>>>>
>>>>  syncer { rate 10M;}
>>>>    on node1 {#
>>>>     device /dev/drbd0;
>>>>     disk /dev/sdc2;
>>>>     address 192.168.2.252:7788;
>>>>     meta-disk /dev/sdc1[0];
>>>>  }
>>>>   on node2 {
>>>>     device /dev/drbd0;
>>>>     disk /dev/sdc2;
>>>>     address 192.168.2.253:7788;
>>>>     meta-disk /dev/sdc1[0];
>>>>   }
>>>> }
>>>>
>>>> resource r1 {
>>>>   protocol C;
>>>>   startup { wfc-timeout 0; degr-wfc-timeout     120; }
>>>>   disk { on-io-error detach; } # or panic, ...
>>>>   net {}
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>   syncer { rate 10M;}
>>>>   on node1 {
>>>>     device /dev/drbd1;
>>>>     disk /dev/sdc3;
>>>>     address 192.168.2.252:7788;
>>>>     meta-disk /dev/sdc1[0];
>>>>   }
>>>>   on node2 {
>>>>     device /dev/drbd1;
>>>>     disk /dev/sdc3;
>>>>     address 192.168.2.253:7788;
>>>>     meta-disk /dev/sdc1[0];
>>>>   }
>>>> }
>>>>
>>>> and partitions on both servers look like:
>>>>
>>>> Disk /dev/sdc: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
>>>> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders
>>>> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
>>>>
>>>>    Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
>>>> /dev/sdc1               1          50      401593+  83  Linux
>>>> /dev/sdc2              51        7399    59030842+  83  Linux
>>>> /dev/sdc3            7400       19457    96855885   83  Linux
>>>>
>>>>
>>> anyone knows what is the correct procedure to accomplish above?
>>>
>>> thx
>>
>
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