How does one resize/expand a softraid RAID1?
Chris Ross <[email protected]> Mon, 13 Jul 2026 15:58:30 -0400
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So, I have a failed disk in a softraid mirror. While looking to replace it, I want to just replace both drives and get a larger fs. Most of my experience in recent years has been using ZFS, so I know how to do exactly this with ZFS. But, I can’t find a general guide or anything specific in the docs/pages for bioctl, that describes how to do this with OpenBSD. Is there a way to replace a failed drive with a larger one, rebuild the mirror onto it, then replace the smaller remaining drive with one of equal size and rebuild onto that? Then, a step would need to be performed to tell the softraid device to fill the new available space, and then growfs. Thanks. Sorry if it is already documented somewhere and I failed to find it in my quick search. -Chris