Hello, I upgraded my failed RAID1 from 6TB to 8TB by copying the old working drives partition to the a new drive and then add the new drive to the old RAID1 and let the box recover for about 15 hours. I did the same on the 2nd disk and now have an 6TB RAID1 with 8TB media.
Now I want to use all of the disk media, but I'm hesitant to try the next steps.
Expand Partition - there is no option to expand both drive partions at once, so can I (first save the partition table) expand each drive one by one and retain my RAID and all my data?
or if ATL-F requires the RAID partitions to be identical, can I need to destroy the RAID1, expand each partition, keeping the data and then rejoin the RAID1?
After I get the Partition enlarged, the next steps should be ease, which are to expand the RAID1, and then finally the File System.
Also, I don't have a linux machine or really know how to use linux. I'm trying to do this all by Web GUI.
Can anyone comment if my assumptions are correct?
Here's my disk status for one drive.
md0 RAID Details
/dev/md0:
Version : 1.0
Creation Time : Sun Oct 2 01:36:37 2022
Raid Level : raid1
Array Size : 5859090896 (5587.66 GiB 5999.71 GB)
Used Dev Size : 5859090896 (5587.66 GiB 5999.71 GB)
Raid Devices : 2
Total Devices : 2
Persistence : Superblock is persistent
Intent Bitmap : Internal
Update Time : Tue Aug 19 14:39:13 2025
State : clean
Active Devices : 2
Working Devices : 2
Failed Devices : 0
Spare Devices : 0
Name : D-LINK_8CE02E_Y:0 (local to host D-LINK_8CE02E_Y)
UUID : 57918be6:40b74a19:6989b151:d265db48
Events : 34497
Number Major Minor RaidDevice State
3 8 2 0 active sync /dev/sda2
2 8 18 1 active sync /dev/sdb2
and here is my partition information before making changes
Partition right disk, 8.0TB, WDC WD80EFZZ-68BTXN0
Using GPT partitioning.
Every internal disk must have a swap partition as its first partition, 0.5GB per 2TB disk is generally enough.
Keep Dev Start sector Length Size (GB) Type
sda1 64 2861056 1.465 swap
sda2 2861120 11718182064 5999.709 RAID
sda3 empty
sda4 empty
Free: 2000.389
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Hello, I upgraded my failed RAID1 from 6TB to 8TB by copying the old working drives partition to the a new drive and then add the new drive to the old RAID1 and let the box recover for about 15 hours. I did the same on the 2nd disk and now have an 6TB RAID1 with 8TB media.
Now I want to use all of the disk media, but I'm hesitant to try the next steps.
After I get the Partition enlarged, the next steps should be ease, which are to expand the RAID1, and then finally the File System.
Also, I don't have a linux machine or really know how to use linux. I'm trying to do this all by Web GUI.
Can anyone comment if my assumptions are correct?
Here's my disk status for one drive.
md0 RAID Details
/dev/md0:
Version : 1.0
Creation Time : Sun Oct 2 01:36:37 2022
Raid Level : raid1
Array Size : 5859090896 (5587.66 GiB 5999.71 GB)
Used Dev Size : 5859090896 (5587.66 GiB 5999.71 GB)
Raid Devices : 2
Total Devices : 2
Persistence : Superblock is persistent
Intent Bitmap : Internal
Active Devices : 2
Working Devices : 2
Failed Devices : 0
Spare Devices : 0
/proc/mdstat:
Personalities : [linear] [raid0] [raid1] [raid6] [raid5] [raid4]
md0 : active raid1 sdb2[2] sda2[3]
5859090896 blocks super 1.0 [2/2] [UU]
bitmap: 0/11 pages [0KB], 262144KB chunk
unused devices:
and here is my partition information before making changes
Partition right disk, 8.0TB, WDC WD80EFZZ-68BTXN0
Using GPT partitioning.
Every internal disk must have a swap partition as its first partition, 0.5GB per 2TB disk is generally enough.
Keep Dev Start sector Length Size (GB) Type
sda1 64 2861056 1.465 swap
sda2 2861120 11718182064 5999.709 RAID
sda3 empty
sda4 empty
Free: 2000.389