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rmaeder
Apr 04, 2011Aspirant
Adding a disk to ReadyNAS Pro for RAID5/6 volume expansion?
I have been running a Pro Business unit with 4 2TB disks, configured with one RAID5 and one RAID6 volume. Now, I added another disk and want to extend the two volumes to use the new disk. Frontview on...
rmaeder
Apr 06, 2011Aspirant
chirpa wrote: http://www.readynas.com/RAIDiator_x86_4_2_16_Notes
OK, it almost worked. I upgraded to 4.2.16 and then the volume tabs for both of my volumes had a section listing the new disk 5, and a new checkbox to add it to the volume. I actived the one for Volume C (RAID6), and before rebooting, had a look at the tab for Volume D. The checkbox was grayed out, so I thought I had to do the expansion one after the other.
After the reboot Volume C was successfully expanded to span all 5 disks. But now the tab for Volume D no longer had the section listing the new disk 5, and no chance to add anything to it.
I had a look at the logs. The partition tables for disks 1-4 have:
Number Start (sector) End (sector) Size Code Name
1 4 8388611 4.0 GiB FD00 Linux RAID
2 8388612 9437187 512.0 MiB FD00 Linux RAID
3 9437188 442189827 206.4 GiB FD00 Linux RAID
4 442189828 3907026947 1.6 TiB FD00 Linux RAID
and disk 5 has:
Number Start (sector) End (sector) Size Code Name
1 64 8388671 4.0 GiB FD00 Linux RAID
2 8388672 9437247 512.0 MiB FD00 Linux RAID
3 9437248 442189887 206.4 GiB FD00
so there is a slight difference, but still room for that extra partition to add to Volume D, but how can I tell it do to so? :(
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