Yesterday Kevin and I swapped in some 250G hard
drives for our old 80G drives. The 80G drives were setup in a RAID-1
configuration. With our recent upgrade to CentOS
5 we gained the
ability to do online growing of RAID-1 arrays, so it was a good time to
upgrade (actually, it was planned that way ;-P).
So the first step was swapping the new drives in and letting the array
resync each time. When replacing the drives, we also modified the
partition so it utilized the entire disk.
Old disk:
/dev/sdb3 : start= 2313360, size=158513355, Id=fd
New disk:
/dev/sdb3 : start= 2313360, size=486078705, Id=fd
Then, all was required was to re-add the disk to the array to get it
syncing:
$ mdadm --manage --add /dev/md1 /dev/sdb3
After each drive was finished syncing, we needed to get grub setup on
the device again to use its own copy of /boot (props to the Dell
Software Raid and Grub
HOW-TO).
$ grub<br />> device (hd0) /dev/sdb<br />> root (hd0,0)<br />> setup (hd0)
These steps were performed again for the other drive.
After both new drives were in, it was time to grow the RAID-1 array:
$ mdadm --grow /dev/md1 --size=max
After the array finished syncing, it was time to resize the filesystem:
$ resize2fs
And that leaves us with a much larger root partition! Where it was 90%
full before, it's now 30% full:
$ df -hFilesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on/dev/md1 229G 64G 154G 30% /