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  • I’ve recently done this on one of my machines, these were the steps I as far as i remember:

    • backup!
    • add the new disks to the machine
    • partition them like the smaller disks
    • add the new disks to the array(s) (as members, not just spares)
    • take care of bootloader things while the raid is syncing
    • your raid should have 4 devices in sync now
    • fail and remove the smaller disks from the raid one by one
    • resize the partitions on the bigger disks to maximum
    • grow the MD raid to the new size

    If you use luks and/or lvm some additional steps will be needed to grow them as well.

    If your system can hotplug disks there’s a chance to pull this off with little to no downtime. :)














  • nvidia has always been hostile to open source, as far back as i can remember.

    back when nvidia bought 3dfx they took down the source code for the open 3dfx drivers within days, if not on the same day. i remember because i had just gotten myself a sweet voodoo 5 some weeks before that, and the great linux support was the reason i chose it… of course the driver code survived elsewhere, but it told me all i needed to know about that company.

    also: linus’ rant wasn’t just a fun stunt, it was necessary to get nvidia to properly cooperate with the open source community if they want to keep making money running linux on their hardware.