On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 9:04 AM, John Drescher <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:drescherjm@gmail.com">drescherjm@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">> So I guess part of my issue with the RAID stuff is how I've got 3x250 and<br>
> 1x300 in a RAID5 array, so I'm missing 50G. This is because I had a 250 go<br>
> bad and replaced it with a 300. Ideally, that extra 50 would've just been<br>
> brought in and be usable - even if not RAID5. Maybe I'm looking for too<br>
> much. I've had problems before with making a decision one way and then not<br>
> being able to change it (because of the size of the filesystem), so I'm<br>
> trying to be smarter about it.<br>
><br>
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</div>If you added your array members as partitions, you should be able to<br>
claim the extra 50GB by adding a second partition to the 300GB drive.<br>
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</div></div></blockquote></div><br>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?<br>