[mythtv-users] Storage Solution: Can ya help a brother out?

[vamythguy]

On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 9:04 AM, John Drescher <drescherjm at gmail.com> wrote:

> > So I guess part of my issue with the RAID stuff is how I've got 3x250 and
> > 1x300 in a RAID5 array, so I'm missing 50G.  This is because I had a 250
> go
> > bad and replaced it with a 300.  Ideally, that extra 50 would've just
> been
> > brought in and be usable - even if not RAID5.  Maybe I'm looking for too
> > much.  I've had problems before with making a decision one way and then
> not
> > being able to change it (because of the size of the filesystem), so I'm
> > trying to be smarter about it.
> >
>
> If you added your array members as partitions, you should be able to
> claim the extra 50GB by adding a second partition to the 300GB drive.
>
> John
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I thought that might be the answer - ok.  And it looks like someone added
the ability to grow RAID arrays when I wasn't looking.  So, if that's the
case, why LVM?
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