[SunHELP] converting from striped to RAID-5 --VxVM

[Austad, Jay]

Nevermind.  I got it to work.  I didn't have a temp disk to copy data to
while it was moving stuff around.  It's working now.



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Austad, Jay 
> Sent: Monday, February 26, 2001 12:40 PM
> To: 'sunhelp at sunhelp.org'
> Subject: [SunHELP] converting from striped to RAID-5 --VxVM
> 
> 
> I have a striped volume consisting of 12 18GB drives using 
> Veritas Volume
> manager.  I know I can turn this into RAID-5 without adding 
> another disk,
> but the partition will be 18GB smaller.  
> 
> I have a spare 36GB drive in the unit which is doing nothing. 
>  Can I take
> the 36GB drive and use it in the RAID-5 volume so I won't 
> lose any space?  I
> know it'll waste half the space on the drive if I can do it, 
> but I'm not
> really concerned about that.
> 
> When I tried to add it before, I just got a cannot allocate block size
> error.
> 
> 
> 
> ---------- 
> Jay Austad 
> Network Administrator 
> CBS Marketwatch 
> 612.817.1271 
> austad at marketwatch.com <mailto:austad at marketwatch.com>  
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