[SOLVED] Dell PERC 6/i question

[Nephilim]

just wanted to get a quick answer to a question that is looming

wanted to know if the aforementioned controller (in a dell poweredge 1950) can expand to fill a physical disk if one disk is replaced with a larger one.

that is, wanna replace current disk with some larger ones with minimal downtime.

step 1

replace existing drive 1 with new drive 1, bring array back up, let sync

step 2

replace existing drive 2 with new drive 2, bring array up, let sync

step 3

after both drives replaced the idea is to expand them to fill the maximum capacity

gonna be done over 2 or 3 days

currently reading user guide, but would like to get an answer if anyone knows off-the-bat so to speak.

thanks for any help

[Spazosaurus]

Yeah. You'll have an array with the new drives but the logical partition's size will remain the same as it was before. After the changeover you'll have unallocated space on the volume which you should then be able to use to (manually) expand ur partition.

[Nephilim]

brilliant!

thanks for the info, cap.