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Hello I have the feeling this may not be the right forum for the following question, 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...

...All quality HP equipment with an MSA 500 storage array acting as the shared storage between the two nodes in the cluster. This cluster is configured for reliability and not load balancing. All work is handled by one node or the other not both. There are two 100GB RAID 5 logical drives in the MSA500. Linux sees them as /dev/md2 and /dev/md3 respectively. Running cat /proc/mdstat shows them as "active multipath" and otherwise healthy. There is a nightly shell script that runs and backs up information via tar to a USB external drive. The last thing the script does before unmount...

Hi Guys, I have a client who hopes to keep their server another 5 years making it 10 years old at that time. At this point there are no plans to add new infrastructure or a new server to the mix. Their business model is fairly static. I'd like to see them upgrade. Can anyone suggest specific reasons why running a business on 10 year old equipment is a bad thing? Specific arguments I can