[rhn-users] need advice on managing partition size (LVM / RAID hardware)

[Jesse Becker]

On Mon, Sep 27, 2004 at 02:09:35PM -0400, Frederic Medery wrote:
> Yes,
> it seems perfect but to create a new raid 5 disk array  I will need 3 
> new disks instead of adding 1 to the first raid array.

Recall that you will have to add a disk of the same size to the array.  If
your array is made of, say, 200GB disks, and you add a new 250GB disk, 50GB
will be unused.  Instead of adding incrementally, you just have to add in
larger sets of disks, and/or resize things on the fly.

-- 
Jesse Becker
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