even if you expand the drive via the lun utility, then you will still need
to run diskpart unless you want to create two disks and span them (this is
not part of a cluster? if it is, you can't do that) and in that case, you
will not be expanding a LUN, you will be creating a new lun.
I have never seen the dirty bit get flipped on a disk unless the disk has
other issues to begin with.
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| Hi Michael,
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| All very good questions. First one, if you are extend the Raid5 array
from
| the hardware stand-point then it is seamless to the OS. The other method
| would be to use Diskpart utility discussed in the following article to
| accomplish the same thing.
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| 325590 How to use Diskpart.exe to extend a data volume in Windows Server
| 2003,
|
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=325590
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| 329707 Best practices for using dynamic disks on Windows 2000-based
| computers
|
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=329707
|
| Make sure you plan this out correctly, because some things customer don't
| foresee in to the future is that if the Dirty Bit is flipped On for some
| unknown reason............. How long will CHKDSK take to run when the
| volumes become unmanageable because it's too big?
|
| 160963 CHKNTFS.EXE: What You Can Use It For
|
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=160963
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| Hope this helps,
| Mike Rosado
| Windows 2000 MCSE + MCDBA
| Microsoft Enterprise Platform Support
| Windows NT/2000/2003 Cluster Technologies
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| -----Original Message-----
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| | > Hi, I have an HP NetServer running Win 2000 Adv Srvr. Currently the
server
| > has a data volume made up of 3 x 36Gb disks in Raid 5 and showing as 1
| > logical drive . I wish to add 2 additional disks to increase the size of
| the
| > volume. I can use the array utilty to extend the array.
| > Will this be seamless?
| > Would I be better off breaking the array and creating a new one and
| restrong
| > the data from back up?
| > Please let me know if you need more info and any advice is gratefully
| > accepted,
| > Thanks!
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