Kanga Gets a 1.3TB HDD Upgrade
Two weeks ago I ordered 6 WD 300GB 7200RPM 8MB cache HDD, which
arrived to Kuwait on Wednesday. I wasn’t able to get them on the same
day since they got held in customs. I was able to get them out from
customs on Thursday with the help of nibaq’s instructions and did the
upgrade on the same day. Since I had previously 10 HDD in the machine I
had to add two additional Promise IDE controllers and 6 more Y power
cable splitters. The filesystem of the storage is setup with
lvm2 on top of raid5. The following is the process I did once the
machine was up with the new drives:
1. Since new controllers were added the old raid5 configuration was
invalid and had to fix that with the help of: mdadm -Ebsc partitions
2. Added the new drives to the raidtab and did mkraid /dev/md2 to create
the raid5.
3. To extend the LVM2 I did the following:
pvcreate /dev/md2
vgextend vg /dev/md2
pvscan (get the space I can extend the LVM with)
lvextend -L+1.36T /dev/vg/lv
e2fsck -f /dev/vg/lv
resize2fs /dev/vg/lv
Now the current HDD’s installed are 4x 120GB, 1x 160GB, 1x 200GB,
4×250GB, and 6x 300GB which bringd the total to 3640GB. The current
usable storage area is 2.81TB since some space is lost from using raid5.
For more pictures of kanga check out the gallery.
on March 25th, 2005 at 8:14 pm
man i love these posts. I am still waiting for your how to on the 1.3km wifi thingy. fuckin a man, 2.8TB, i need one of those!!
on March 25th, 2005 at 8:14 pm
[...] >
He’s Back!
Friday March 25th 2005, 11:14 pm
Tivo Guy is back!! [Link]
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on March 25th, 2005 at 8:24 pm
ROFL… :o)
on March 25th, 2005 at 8:27 pm
Will probably post something about it once I re-align the antenna’s as now I get some packet lose from time to time…
on March 25th, 2005 at 8:42 pm
Can I get a shell? ,)
Glad those instructions helped. Did you make the fake invoice for it?
Oh and edit that wiki if it is missing anything. Especially that last part with the ware house.
on March 25th, 2005 at 9:01 pm
LoL… Yep the instructions helped a bit but no I didn’t make the fake invoice… I was to chicken to do so as if they have caught me with a fake invoice god knows what would happen to my $1k worth of drives… so not worth the 15KD… Will edit the wiki and hopefully I remember what happened…
on June 25th, 2005 at 4:08 pm
WOAH!! Is that a snake in there
on July 14th, 2005 at 4:51 pm
man had to check this out again, i love kanga, i really do.