Replacement disks / increase volume size

Hello,
We have an xserve from 2008 that came with 300 GB disks in it, and we have it setup in a RAID-5 configuration. We want to purchase some additional disks in case one of them fails, but I don't see any 300 GB disks for sale in the apple store. But i noticed they are just Seagate drives and can probably be purchased from another retailer and then popped into the caddies.
However, suppose we buy 1 TB disks instead and, eventually, replace all 3 drives with 1 TB, one at a time so as not to interrupt the volume. Would it be possible to resize the array to 2 TB without much interruption (i.e. reformatting and reinstalling the OS)?
Will any SAS disks work, or are we limited in choice by Apple's hardware?
Thanks

Hi Scarf,
To gain the extra capacity you'd need to copy the data from your existing raid and then create a new one with the new disks. Also from what you've described you have the SAS disks which doesn't allow you mix SAS with SATA drives if using the hardware RAID card.
As for getting off the shelf drives. With something like the Xserve i'd advise against it. The drives available from Apple have their own firmware on it and would be covered by Apple Care if you have it.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1219
Hope that helps
Beatle

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So the problem continues...please help! Here are my settings:
About this mac:
Mac OS X V. 10.7.5
processor 1.6 ghz intel core 2 duo, memory 4 4g 1067 MHz DDR3
software up to date!
Airport Utility:
V 6.2 (620.33)
both internet globe and TC show green dots in graphic, however internet occasionally shows yellow then goes to green, but still gets error 22. Suddenly TC showed explanation mark and says lost connection and asked if I wanted to 'forget', gave same errors, then mysteriously went back to green, but still got error 22!.
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Time Capsule:
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http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1482
Take the TC back to 7.5.2 firmware. It is a really old version and latest firmware does it no good at all.
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WIth a fully clean system.. now do a full reset of TM.
See A4 http://pondini.org/TM/Troubleshooting.html
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Even over pseudo - ethernet this will take many hours.. and you basically have to leave it to work.. do not touch it.. make sure the MBA cannot sleep though.. turn off sleep.. beforehand.

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Failed to mount disk image: Error Domain=com.apple.backupd.ErrorDomain Code=31 "The operation couldn’t be completed. (com.apple.backupd.ErrorDomain error 31.)" UserInfo=0x7ff0a343d430 {MessageParameters=(
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I didn't remove all of my names, so just ignore that...

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NateCook, I'm experiencing the exact same issue. I'd previously been enjoying how seamless Time Machine worked, wirelessly and automatically, to backup my MacBook Pro to a 2 TB drive attached to my Airport Extreme. I also liked that I had the flexibility to plug that drive directly to my Mac, via FW800 or USB 2.0, if I needed to. It would always work too, regardless of whether or not I interrupted a backup in progress. Now, with Lion, I'm constantly getting the same "This backup disk image "/Volumes....Macintosh.sparsebundle is already in use" error. I fix it by restarting the Airport Extreme but that's a pain in the butt to have to do all the time.
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In the resultset you will find a column called 'name' - that are the logical file names that we need for the increase. If you have a standard installation the names should look like <SID>DATA{1-4}. Next step ist the actual increase of the files:
/*Replace <SID> with your DB name*/
alter database <SID> modify file(name='<SID>DATA1', size=25GB) /*25GB ist just an example*/
alter database <SID> modify file(name='<SID>DATA2', size=25GB)
alter database <SID> modify file(name='<SID>DATA2', size=25GB)
alter database <SID> modify file(name='<SID>DATA4', size=25GB)
Thats it. If you run the first statement again, you will see that the filesize has been increased. You can also check on filesystem level.
Regards,
Sven

Cannot increase partition size

I originally had three two partitions one called BOOT and one called FILES. I ran out of room on my boot drive and I was told to clone it, add a partition with a larger size and clone it back to the larger parttion. I crteated BOOT 2 and then once cloned back I deleted BOOT.
Now I cannot increase the size of FILES to its original size and cannot seem to recover any of the space from the original BOOT parttiion. Neither BOOT 2 or FILES can be increased. How do I acheive this?
Here is a screen capture of what is going on.......

You can not do that with Disk Utility. While it can be used to create and resize partitions, it can not be used to regain the space between partitions if there is data on the second partition.
You might try something like > iPartition for Mac - Smart hard disk partitioning utility.
But personally if I were in that boat. I would Clone the data from the 2nd and 3rd Partitions to partitions on an external drive. Then start over by reformatting the internal drive into 1 or 2 new partitions using Disk Utility and then clone the partitions back onto the internal drive.
In addition: In OS X it is not necessary to have a boot partition and a file partition, OS X does quite well at managing everything including quite large user libraries in one partition.

Volume size information wrong

I think I found a concerning problem freeing large spare files.
After creating and removing a handful of sparse 200GB files (VirtualBox volumes), Finder is quite wrongly showing:
Capacity: 499.42
Available: 655.65
statfs is showing something more sane:
Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity iused ifree %iused Mounted on
/dev/disk0s2 465Gi 223Gi 242Gi 48% 58462482 63465747 48% /
inode counts seem to add up too.
neither fsck nor Disk Utilities are showing any problems with this volume. Obviously, a free count is badly wrong somewhere (does Mac OS use unmap on SSD volumes?)
So while the spare files existed, the Finder information was sane, showing a disk usage reflecting the actual allocation size (not spare file size). Upon deleting the files, the available count surpased the total volume size. I think somewhere between HFS+, SATA unmap and the SSD itself there's a potentially bad problem. My fear is at some point, used blocks are going to wrongly show up mapped into what the filesystem thinks is free space.
Had anyone else seen this?
I'll be restoring from Time Capsule as soon as I can.
OSX 10.8.5
MacBook Pro 15" Retina

HI
Yuo need ALL DISK to install
I installed this version and i didn't problems
good lock
mario

Alter type to increase varray size

I have the following:
CREATE OR REPLACE TYPE idvarray is varray(10) of INTEGER
CREATE TABLE event_availability_map
, event_id_list idvarray
I would like to increase the size of idvarray, how can I do this?

Stephen,
With pre-10g releases, you can declare the varray to be of a large size to accomodate future growth. Oracle allocates storage based on actually used sizes.
With 10g release, you can issue 'alter type' statement to raise the varray size limit (http://download-west.oracle.com/docs/cd/B13789_01/appdev.101/b10799/adobjcol.htm#sthref310).
Regards,
Geoff

How to increase image size?

I am trying to put a collection of images onto a photo library and I need the image to be higher than 24mb. how do I increase the size of my images?

Do you really need to increase the file size and not the resolution (in pixelsize)? Increasing the file size will not increase the resolution or quality of your image. If you want to change the file size of an image, export it and pick one of the export presets that generate a high resolution image, for example "Tiff, original size, 16bit"" will waste a lot of disk storage. If that is still not large enough, edit the preset -duplicate it and set the size to " xx bx yyy inches"; then pick a very high dpi value, for example 1000dpi.
But if you meant: high pixelsize - pick an export preset with "fits within ... pixels"
Regards
Léonie

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