I posted last time about modifying the swap space on Linux with LVM and also introduced expanding a file system to match a new larger partition. Next is to add another drive for data storage. I’m just adding one drive, because the drive is actually a virtual drive through VMware that sits on [...]
I posted a while back how to modify your swap space in Solaris 10, now I will show you how to do it in Linux. This example is from a Red Hat Enterprise (RHEL5) clone and is using Logical Volume Management (LVM), but should be usable in other Linux distributions and you could use [...]
So in my last post, I replaced a failed hard drive. What if the drive isn’t bad? Maybe the mirror just got out of sync for some other reason. As I mentioned previously, sometimes metastat, iostat and cfgadm will still show the failed drive. In this case, it is very possible [...]
Last time I posted about my experience replacing a drive in an array created with Veritas Volume Manager. That was a RAID 0 array that had lost its data immediately when the drive died, so I didn’t worry about saving the data when rebuilding it. This time I was rebuilding a RAID 1 [...]
On one of my Solaris 9 servers, I lost a hard drive on a large array that had been built with no redundancy. RAID 0 is a tempting option for some admins trying to get the most space that they can out of the capacity they have, but it is almost always the wrong [...]