[Nottingham] Growing a RAID 1
J I
jasonirwin73 at gmail.com
Tue Jan 17 23:58:01 UTC 2023
Hello everyone, hope you are keeping well.
I have an old RAID setup using drives from 2011 and whilst I've not had
issues, I am getting a bit nervous about them.
At the moment both 2TB drives are in mdadm RAID1 (/dev/md0), and LVM sits
on top of that, the actual FS is the unexciting Ext4:
#lsblk
...
sda 8:0 0 1.8T 0 disk
└─md0 9:0 0 1.8T 0 raid1
└─primary-varlib 253:0 0 1.8T 0 lvm /var/lib
sdb 8:16 0 1.8T 0 disk
└─md0 9:0 0 1.8T 0 raid1
└─primary-varlib 253:0 0 1.8T 0 lvm /var/lib
...
As you can see they are not boot, just data really.
I want to replace them both with new 4TB Seagate IronWolfs
Can anyone point me at some instructions on how to do that? My search-fu is
failing me and I have a feeling it's going to be more complicated than just
replacing the drives one at a time with a rebuild (and then some magic to
grow things to the full 4TB).
Do I need to be overly concerned with /etc/fstab which seems to be using a
UUID:
/dev/disk/by-id/dm-uuid-LVM-47rf... /var/lib ext4 defaults 0 0
This is all on Ubuntu Server 22.04.
Cheers!
J.
Some more info if it helps:
#file -sL /dev/primary/varlib
/dev/primary/varlib: Linux rev 1.0 ext4 filesystem data...
#mdadm --misc --detail /dev/md0
/dev/md0:
Version : 1.2
Creation Time : Sun May 24 15:00:15 2020
Raid Level : raid1
Array Size : 1953382464 (1862.89 GiB 2000.26 GB)
Used Dev Size : 1953382464 (1862.89 GiB 2000.26 GB)
Raid Devices : 2
Total Devices : 2
Persistence : Superblock is persistent
Intent Bitmap : Internal
Update Time : Tue Jan 17 23:22:16 2023
State : clean
Active Devices : 2
Working Devices : 2
Failed Devices : 0
Spare Devices : 0
Consistency Policy : bitmap
Name : ubuntu-server:0
UUID : 7df346bb:a3c7ee5a:aa7ea17b:09c1c352
Events : 88901
Number Major Minor RaidDevice State
0 8 0 0 active sync /dev/sda
1 8 16 1 active sync /dev/sdb
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