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Resizing raid-1 on replacing failed disk: msg#00184

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Subject: Resizing raid-1 on replacing failed disk

I would like replace a failed disk in a raid-1 with a larger disk - and ultimately increase the size of the array (and ext3 partition) by subsequently adding a second larger disk in lieu of the currently active one.

I am hoping someone will scan the following and briefly reply: "this looks ok" or "you forgot step(s) X" before I commence.

<disclaimer>
I have read the software-raid-howto, list faq, mdadm man pages and trawled this mailing list to try to ensure I am not posting a question that has been answered before. If you believe that this topic is well covered elsewhere, please smack me up and post a link.
</disclaimer>

Currently:

kernel: 2.4.18
mdadm: 0.7.2-2 (version reported by dpkg)

# mdadm --detail /dev/md0
/dev/md0:
Version : 00.90.00
Creation Time : Sun Dec 23 05:46:51 2001
Raid Level : raid1
Array Size : 39078016 (37.26 GiB 40.01 GB)
Device Size : 39078016 (37.26 GiB 40.01 GB)
Raid Disks : 2
Total Disks : 2
Preferred Minor : 0
Persistance : Superblock is persistant
<snip>
Number Major Minor RaidDisk State
0 3 1 0 active sync /dev/hda1
1 22 1 1 faulty /dev/hdc1
UUID : 3e9f6b0c:e3c4d3cc:761130b2:d4f74686

Plan:

- backup
- physcially remove the failed disk
- physcially replace the failed disk with a larger disk
- add the new disk to the array and allow to resync
- fail and remove the active smaller disk
- physcially replace the active smaller disk with a larger disk
- resize the ext3 partition

Help:

Could you indicate whether this is possible with the listed kernel and mdadm version before I kick off?

Thanks and regards,

matt
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