[BlueOnyx:17871] Re: Re-partition

[Chris Gebhardt - VIRTBIZ Internet]

Hi Tom,
> The setup is SL/BlueOnyx, so I'd say LVM. The system has a PERC6 RAID
> controller and I setup the entire 2 drives as TRUE Hardware RAID1. The
> RAID1 drive reads the full size correctly.

You don't mention what version of BlueOnyx, but fair enough... it's 
probably configured with LVM.

But if you've swapped in new disks and had the PERC rebuild, then the 
"growing the drive" issue is going to sit there, rather than the OS.


> I have not implemented the new drives yet. And I and still working off the
> old drives. So destroying the new ones and having to re-mirror is no
> biggie. I agree the CMU is the best way, as I have done it several times,
> using your Tutorial. The only thing is using the SL/BO install disk
> configures the entire disk size. I wanted to have a separate partition of
> 500GB to use for other things, outside of the BlueOnyx.

Oh... wait, what?  So you have added additional hard drives to the PERC 
controller?  Then they would be recognized as a new volume, and you'd 
need to bring that in and format it with fdisk.

Michael has offered you some very valid words of wisdom in his reply 
that I might paraphrase here.  You're asking about some tricky 
"off-label" issues that you're considering on an active production 
server.  It sounds a bit dangerous and not like something we'd 
necessarily recommend.  To me, the question "can it be done" is best 
answered with a "yes, but you probably shouldn't."   That's not meant as 
a slight against your abilities or skills in any way.  I've been working 
with Cobalt-derived systems as a living for 16 years and I wouldn't mess 
with this.

But... why are you trying to bring in 500GB to use "outside of 
BlueOnyx"?   Would you not be better served simply setting up another 
system to use outside BlueOnyx that is well and truly outside of 
BlueOnyx?   Because the first time that something on your BlueOnyx 
server breaks that is "outside BlueOnyx", you're going to get feedback 
from the list about how what you're doing is outside a BlueOnyx 
installation, and not really our thing.

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