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List:       evms-devel
Subject:    Re: [Evms-devel] RAID-5 Cannot get expand option
From:       Mike Tran <mhtran () us ! ibm ! com>
Date:       2006-04-03 15:49:46
Message-ID: 4431441A.40404 () us ! ibm ! com
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Hi Johan,

Johan Ekman wrote:

>Thanks for the reply Steinar, and sorry for taking so long to respond.
>
>I have tried what you suggested (I actually had done that prior to asking,
>but I did it again just to be sure), but alas the problem persists... What I
>did was:
>
>Delete the volume that EVMS automatically created for me on the new hard
>disk I added. Now I have the disk as an "available object". I deactivated
>both the raid-5 Region, and the EVMS-Volume that I created on top of it. I
>then selected Expand/Volume in the menu, but the pop-up window just tells me
>that no items were found.
>
>Right-clicking on the volume just displays delete-options. The only thing I
>seem to be able to do is add a spare to the region, which of course is not
>what I intended.....
>
>I can add that the new disk is identical (same make, same model) as the
>other disks in the region. And it is not partitioned. In other words, I
>tried to make it as simple as possible...
>
>Do I need to do anything to the new drive before it becomes available to the
>volume? It is absolutely "clean", i.e. no volume, no partitions, no
>filesystem, no nothing...
>
>Johan
>
>  
>
Is the size of the new disk is larger than the smallest number of the 
raid5 array?  If yes, you should see an expand option at the volume 
context menu (not at raid5 context menu).

--
Regards,
Mike T.




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