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HOW TO EXPAND AN EXISTING
LSI RAID ARRAY USING
MEGACLI
Warning: You should ALWAYS make a backup of all of your
information on the raid array before performing any of these
steps.

The exact commands to do this vary on your current


configuration and number of disks in the raid. Before adding in
the disks you need to get a feel for your current setup by using
the following commands.

You can see all the currently attached disks with the following
command. Each disk will have an ‘Enclosure Device ID’ and a ‘Slot
Number’ – these are how you reference the disks when using
MegaCli.

$ MegaCli64 -PDList -aALL

You can see the currently configured raid arrays with the
following command. The main points are the raids data size,
number of disks, and raid level.

$ MegaCli64 -LDInfo -Lall -aALL

The main conventions that LSI raid cards use are the ideas of
enclosures and slots for disks:

Enclosure Device ID: 252


Slot Number: 3

— So this fictional disk would be referenced by [252:3]


Also for the raid arrays there is a ‘logical’ and ‘adapter’ value. If
you only have one raid card and one raid setup on the system
both your adapter and logical are going to be 0.
For this example we will say our system already has three drives
installed and we are going to install one more. In this case the
output of ‘MegaCli64 -PDList -aALL’ would have shown
three drives and the last one would have an EID of 252 (this varies
for each raid card installation) and a Slot Number of 2 (device
numbering starts at 0). Now that we know our current slot
numbers we can physically install the new drive. After installation
the last Slot Number shown from ‘MegaCli64 -PDList -aALL’ will be
3 since there are now four drives attached to the raid card.

The command to expand the raid with the new drive will be:

$ MegaCli64 -LDRecon -Start -r5 -Add -


PhysDrv[252:3] -l0 -a0

– This would add one drive [252:3] to logical 0 on adapter 0 and it


is a Raid level 5

If you were adding multiple drives the Enclosure IDs and Slot
Numbers just become a comma separated list like so:

$ MegaCli64 -LDRecon -Start -r5 -Add -


PhysDrv[252:3,252:4,252:5,252:6] -l0 -a0

To check on the progress of the expansion and status of the


device run the following commands:

$ MegaCli64 -LDRecon -ShowProg -l0 -a0


$ MegaCli64 -LDInfo -l0 -a0

It can take a day or more to finish reconstruction depending on


the size of the raid. In this example we added a single 500GB
drive to an raid5 array of three 500GB drives – it took
approximately 32 hours to finish reconstruction.

Resizing the partition


Note: The following does not apply to LVM’s
Once your raid array has finished reconfiguring with the new
disks you will still need to resize both your partition and the
filesystem.

First you will need to make sure the partition is not mounted. In
our example it is mounted to /data and the device is /dev/sdb

$ umount /data

Check to make sure it’s not listed in the current mounts anymore:

$ mount

Next you will resize the partition by looking at the current


partitions start point, remove the partition, and recreate the
partition with a larger end size:

[root@raid /]# parted /dev/sdb


GNU Parted 2.1
Using /dev/sdb
Welcome to GNU Parted! Type ‘help’ to view a list
of commands.
(parted) p
Model: LSI MR9261-8i (scsi)
Disk /dev/sdc: 998GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: gpt
Number Start End Size
File system Name Flags
1 1049kB 200GB 200GB
xfs
(parted) rm 1
(parted) mkpart
Partition name? []?
File system type? [ext2]? xfs
Start? 1049kB
End? -1
(parted) p
Model: LSI MR9261-8i (scsi)
Disk /dev/sdb: 998GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: gpt

Number Start End Size File


system Name Flags
1 1049kB 998GB 998GB
xfs

(parted) q
Information: You may need to update /etc/fstab.

[root@raid /]#

And finally remount /dev/sdb1 back to /data:

$ mount /dev/sdb1 /data

Resizing the filesystem


Next we need to resize the filesystem on /dev/sdb1. The method
used depends on which filesystem type you are using on that
partition. If you are not sure you can see the filesystem used on
every partition that is currently mounted with the command ‘fsck
-N’.

To automatically resize an ext4 filesystem to the partitions full


size:

$ resize2fs /data

To automatically resize an xfs filesystem to the partitions full size:

$ xfs_growfs /data

You should be able to see the new size for /data with:
$ df -h

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