Revisiting the LD Expansion story with a large boot disk (>2Tb)
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Hi everyone, I have a T410 that used to have 2x2Tb as a LD boot drive (raid-1 config, MegaRAID SAS 9271-8i). I replaced the 2Tb drives with 4Tb drives one after the other. The Boot LD still shows up as 2Tb and I'd like to create another LD in the remaining space (so that the boot LD remains under 2Tb) but it seems MegaCli won't let me.. Here's the LD info: # megaclisas-status -- Controller information -- -- ID | H/W Model | RAM | Temp | Firmware c0 | LSI MegaRAID SAS 9271-8i | 1024MB | 75C | FW: 23.33.0-0023 [...] -- Array information -- -- ID | Type | Size | Strpsz | Flags | DskCache | Status | OS Path | InProgress c0u0 | RAID-1 | 1817G | 256 KB | ADRA,WT | Enabled | Optimal | /dev/sda | None [...] The drives are twice as big as the LD: # megaclisas-status|grep c0u0 [...] c0u0p0 | HDD | WD-WCC4E0344739WDC WD40EFRX-68WT0N0 80.00A80 | 3.637 TB | Online, Spun Up | 6.0Gb/s | 36C | [252:4] | 17 c0u0p1 | HDD | WD-WCC4E0346931WDC WD40EFRX-68WT0N0 80.00A80 | 3.637 TB | Online, Spun Up | 6.0Gb/s | 37C | [252:5] | 18 This LD is the boot LD: # MegaCli -AdpBootDrive -get -a0 Adapter 0: Boot Virtual Drive - #0 (target id - 0). # MegaCli -LDInfo -L0 -a0 Adapter 0 -- Virtual Drive Information: Virtual Drive: 0 (Target Id: 0) Name : RAID Level : Primary-1, Secondary-0, RAID Level Qualifier-0 Size : 1.817 TB Sector Size : 512 Is VD emulated : Yes Mirror Data : 1.817 TB State : Optimal Strip Size : 256 KB Number Of Drives : 2 Span Depth : 1 When I tried adding another LD to the boot drive group, I got this: # MegaCli -CfgLdAdd -r1[252:4,252:5] -sz10GB -a0 Exit Code: 0x1a ( 0x1a means the maximum number of LD's has been reached.) In a similar fashion, LD expansion shows up as impossible: # MegaCli -getLdExpansionInfo -L0 -a0 Virtual Disk: 0 (Target Id: 0) Expansion : Not Possible Exit Code: 0x00 # MegaCli -LdExpansion -p50 -dontExpandArray -L0 -a0 Expansion of Virtual Drive 0 on Adapter 0 is not possible due to space limitation. Exit Code: 0x00 Is there a way to solve this in the current configuration or am I stuck with an LD/Drive Group I cannot expand? My desired configuration would be to have two LD's on the two 4Tb drives in an RAID-1 so none of them would be above 2Tb.. Any ideas? Thanks, Vincent