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{{Note box|due to a bug of kernel 2.6.18 which is the default kernel of Centos5 and SME Server 8.0, you can not grown a RAID6}}
{{Note box|due to a bug of kernel 2.6.18 which is the default kernel of Centos5 and SME Server 8.0, you can not grown a RAID6}}
When new disks are added, existing raid partitions can be grown to use the new disks. After the new disk was partitioned, the RAID level 1/4/5 array can be grown. Assuming that before growing it contains four drives in Raid5 and therefore an array of 3 drives and 1 spare drive. See this [[http://wiki.contribs.org/Raid#Hard_Drives_.E2.80.93_Raid|HowTo]] for understanding the automatic raid construction of SME Server
When new disks are added, existing raid partitions can be grown to use the new disks. After the new disk was partitioned, the RAID level 1/4/5 array can be grown. Assuming that before growing it contains four drives in Raid5 and therefore an array of 3 drives (3*10G) and 1 spare drive(10G). See this [[http://wiki.contribs.org/Raid#Hard_Drives_.E2.80.93_Raid|HowTo]] for understanding the automatic raid construction of SME Server
This is how your array looks before.
This is how your array looks before.
mdadm: ... critical section passed.
mdadm: ... critical section passed.
{{Tip box| For md2 you have to keep --raid-devices='''4''' if you want to have an array of 4 drives+1spare, if you want no spare set --raid-devices='''5'''}}
{{Tip box| For md2 you have to keep --raid-devices='''4''' if you want to have an array of 4 drives+1spare, if you do not want a spare drive, you should set --raid-devices='''5'''}}
we can take a look to the md2 array
[root@smeraid5 ~]# mdadm --detail /dev/md2
/dev/md2:
Version : 0.90
Creation Time : Tue Oct 29 21:04:28 2013
Raid Level : raid5
Array Size : 32644096 (30.28 GiB 31.39 GB)
Used Dev Size : 10377728 (7.90 GiB 9.63 GB)
Raid Devices : 4
Total Devices : 5
Preferred Minor : 2
Persistence : Superblock is persistent
Update Time : Tue Oct 29 21:39:29 2013
State : clean
Active Devices : 4
Working Devices : 5
Failed Devices : 0
Spare Devices : 1
Layout : left-symmetric
Chunk Size : 256K
UUID : d2c26bed:b5251648:509041c5:fab64ab4
Events : 0.462
Number Major Minor RaidDevice State
0 8 2 0 active sync /dev/sda2
1 8 18 1 active sync /dev/sdb2
3 8 34 2 active sync /dev/sdd2
4 8 50 3 active sync /dev/sde2
2 8 114 - spare /dev/sdc2
Once the construction is done, we have to set the LVM to use the whole space
[root@smeraid5 ~]# pvresize /dev/md2
Physical volume "/dev/md2" changed
1 physical volume(s) resized / 0 physical volume(s) not resized
after that we can resize the LVM
[root@smeraid5 ~]# lvresize -l +100%FREE /dev/main/root
Extending logical volume root to 30,25 GB
Logical volume root successfully resized
{{Tip box|/dev/main/root is the default name, but if you have changed this you can find it by typing the command : lvdisplay}}
[root@smeraid5 ~]# resize2fs /dev/main/root
resize2fs 1.39 (29-May-2006)
Filesystem at /dev/main/root is mounted on /; on-line resizing required
Performing an on-line resize of /dev/main/root to 19726336 (4k) blocks.
You should verify that your LVM use the whole drive space with the command
[root@smeraid5 ~]# pvdisplay
--- Physical volume ---
PV Name /dev/md2
VG Name main
PV Size 30.25 GB / not usable 8,81 MB
Allocatable yes (but full)
PE Size (KByte) 32768
Total PE 1533
'''Free PE 0'''
Allocated PE 1533
PV UUID a31UBW-2SN6-CXFk-qLOZ-qrsQ-BIYo-nZexXo
if you can see that you have no more '''FREE PE''' you are the king of raid. But you can see also with the command
[root@smeraid5 ~]# lvdisplay
