expand a logical drive on MSA500 (with Linux, ocfs2 and multipath)

[Philippe Andries]

Hello

I have the feeling this may not be the right forum for the following question, I already posted it on Oracle ocfs2 forum, but I d like to try it here anyway:

This is the case:

I had a 3x72GB HDD RAID5 shared external disk drives (HP MSA500), totalizing about 145,6 GB of data.
I needed to increase the available amount of data, so I added a 4th 72GB HDD and using HP ACU I expanded my existing RAID5 Array, I have now about 218,5 GB available.

But this is of course not reflected in my partition table. I had created 2 partitions on my drives, both formatted with ocfs2. I also run HP Mutlipath.
See the status here under:

[root@erasme ~]# fdisk -l

Disk /dev/cciss/c0d0: 36.4 GB, 36414750720 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4427 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/cciss/c0d0p1 * 1 13 104391 83 Linux
/dev/cciss/c0d0p2 14 4427 35455455 8e Linux LVM

Disk /dev/cciss/c0d1: 218.5 GB, 218513571840 bytes
2 heads, 4 sectors/track, 53348040 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 8 * 512 = 4096 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/cciss/c0d1p1 1 488282 1953126 83 Linux
/dev/cciss/c0d1p2 488283 35565344 140308248 83 Linux

Disk /dev/cciss/c1d0: 218.5 GB, 218513571840 bytes
2 heads, 4 sectors/track, 53348040 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 8 * 512 = 4096 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/cciss/c1d0p1 1 488282 1953126 83 Linux
/dev/cciss/c1d0p2 488283 35565344 140308248 83 Linux

Disk /dev/md0: 1999 MB, 1999896576 bytes
2 heads, 4 sectors/track, 488256 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 8 * 512 = 4096 bytes

Disk /dev/md0 doesn't contain a valid partition table

Disk /dev/md1: 143.6 GB, 143675555840 bytes
2 heads, 4 sectors/track, 35077040 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 8 * 512 = 4096 bytes

My question is :
I would like to know how to resize my partitions to reflect the changes.
The problem is that I cannot afford loosing the data already on the ocfs2 partition. (the database).
Is there a way to expand a formated ocfs2 partition without loosing the data on it?

Thanks in advance for your answers,


Philippe Andries