AddExtraHardDisk - SCSI
This HowTo is based on the AddExtraHardDisk Howto and points out the differences in doing this with some SCSI devices
This Howto should be read in conjuction with the AddExtraHardDisk Howto.
Description
How to add an extra SCSI hard disk to an existing (running) SME server 7.x.
It's intended for special purposes such as adding a backup drive to a SCSI RAID array controller, this will be the basis of this howto.
This was tested on a Compaq DL380 G3, Smart Array 5i, running a 4 disk RAID5 & adding a single 300GB drive for backup purposes.
Assumptions
- I assume the SCSI drive is already installed and functioning.
- If installed on an array controller the drive has been configured as a single drive RAID 0
Notes about RAID
- If using a hardware SCSI RAID controller SME sees the hardware RAID device as a single drive
- LVM ses it as a single disk degraded array, this is normal.
Step-by-step HowTo
1 Preparation
1.0 Mount the harddrive and fire up your machine.
1.1 Get direct shell access and login as root.
2 Partition
2.0 Now you need to identify the device name of the new disk.
cat /var/log/dmesg | grep md
This gives the physical device info, for this system:
[root@speedy]# cat /var/log/dmesg | grep md
md: md driver 0.90.0 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27 md: raid1 personality registered as nr 3 md: md1 stopped. md: bind<cciss/c0d0p1> raid1: raid set md1 active with 1 out of 2 mirrors md: md2 stopped. md: bind<cciss/c0d0p2> raid1: raid set md2 active with 1 out of 2 mirrors md: Autodetecting RAID arrays. md: could not bd_claim cciss/c0d0p1. md: could not bd_claim cciss/c0d0p2. md: autorun ... md: ... autorun DONE. EXT3 FS on md1, internal journal</nowiki>
Info I needed was:
md: bind<cciss/c0d0p1> md: bind<cciss/c0d0p2>
This tells me that I currently have 2 active partitions, p1 & p2, on drive c0d0 (controller 0, disk 0); if a secondary controller was added or used it would therefore be c1d0 (controller 1, disk 0).
Logically my new drive should be on c0d1, & the linux device file to match should be in /dev/cciss, so:
fdisk /dev/cciss/c0d1 (use ? or m to get help)
Follow the prompts to add a Linux partition
Use the w key to write the partiton table & exit from fdisk
Lets see if we have a partition to work with:
fdisk -l /dev/cciss/c0d1
Disk /dev/cciss/c0d1: 299.9 GB, 299992412160 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 36472 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/cciss/c0d1p1 1 36472 292961308+ 83 Linux
Yup, cool, p1 is partition 1 on device c0d1
I don't want to add it to lvm to as it helps to make it more portable for me so this is all I need, your requirements may differ.
Hint: if you need to add it into lvm look at the RAID Howto in the wiki.
2.1 Prepare the new partition
Create filesystem & journal on device
mkfs.ext3 -j /dev/cciss/c0d1p1
3 Mount
Create a mounting point for the new disk
3.0 Create a directory underneath /mnt
mkdir /mnt/backupdrive
3.1 Automount at boot time
To automatically mount the partition at boot time, you need to add the following line to the file /etc/fstab
It can be done in the text editor Pico
pico /etc/fstab
Add the following data to the file (separate columns with a hit on the space-bar):
/dev/cciss/c1d1p1 /mnt/backupdrive ext3 usrquota,grpquota 0 2
Make sure you end this line with a newline (with enter).
Hit <ctrl-x> to exit the editor, y and enter to save.
3.2 Mount manually (this time) all filesystems listed in /etc/fstab
mount -a
3.3 Report the amount of free disk space available on all mounted filesystems + the type of each filesystem, check if it looks OK.
df -v
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/main-root
67862104 49709680 14705232 78% /
/dev/md1 101018 27580 68222 29% /boot
none 1980264 0 1980264 0% /dev/shm
/dev/cciss/c0d1p1 288362876 98368 273616444 1% /mnt/backupdrive
If you don't see a line for /dev/cciss/c0d1p1, something went wrong.
Go back to step 2 and check if you followed all instructions correctly.
We're all done, enjoy!