How long to expand array

How long to expand drive array. Valued Contributor. They had 3 18gig 10Kk Hot swap drives in a raid 5 and I added a 4th drive to the existing array. I took the option of expanding the existing array instead of creating a second logical drive. I did get message about WIn 2K and the possible corruption of data. This is a WInnt 4. I changed the priority to high on both the rebuild an expand.

How long is it going to run to be able to add the 4th drive in. A minute maybe. Haven't used the ,. To continue this discussion, please ask a new question. Get answers from your peers along with millions of IT pros who visit Spiceworks.

Spiceworks Help Desk. The help desk software for IT. Track users' IT needs, easily, and with only the features you need. Learn More ». Thai Pepper. Verify your account to enable IT peers to see that you are a professional. This will happen while the RAID 5 is live, online, and even in use although with degraded performance. Once it is complete, you will need to manage the partition yourself extending current partition , as it won't be automatic.

The "disk" will now be bigger, but the partitions will remain the same size until you extend them. So, adding 3xGB drives will increase it about 2. On that note, 10TB is a pretty good size array I would recommend you further protect it by converting it to a RAID 6, which will give you two disks' worth of parity.

No, that is a feature of all systems with hot-swappable drives. It is possible you have an H, but it is far more likely you have an H If you have an H, I'd recommend you upgrade to the H for this setup. If you can down the server you can also do a Reconfigure in the raid controller under Virtual Disk Mgmt as well. I just took a look at the OMSA interface from online articles and videos, and it looks pretty similar to the interface we get from accessing the dedicated iDRAC interface.

Chris: that's only resizing the partition, but I'll have to still resize the filesystem using resize2fs right? I'm not used to using parted. I was going to delete the partition using fdisk and recreate it to take up the extra space, then use resize2fs to resize the filesystem to use that space. In regards to expanding the array this is the only option. OpenManage is the only way to extend an existing array. In regards to the partition. The OMSA expansion is for the array, the commands I shared with you would be to resize the partition that is within that array.

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