mfsadd will not expand this drive pair! why?

[Guest]

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i have a 160gb drive pair that mfsinfo reports can be expanded 1 more
time, but mfsadd reports "nothing to add!".

an ideas as to why mfsadd and mfsinfo would not agree or why mfsadd
will not expand this drive pair?

http/brown-snout.com/events/2005_tivo_upgrade/tivo_no_expand.jpg

two (2) new 160gb DTivo drives as follows:
- these were created by copying a 120gb+80gb pair using dd
- the 120gb+80gb drives were created from an OEM 40gb drive pair
- mfsinfo reports the 160gb drives as:
. total of 5 partition pairs in use for the pair
. total of ~195gb in use for the pair
. A-drive contains ~118gb and uses 3 partition pairs
. B-drive contains ~78gb and uses 2 partition pairs
. total of ~195gb in use for the pair
. says "can be expanded 1 more time"
- mfsadd -x reports
. "nothing to add"

walter

http/brown-snout.com/events/2005_tivo_upgrade/tivo_no_expand.jpg

 

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i ran into a similar issue using mfsbackup/mfsrestore as you suggested
- which i tried _before_ dd. .it puked during the mfsrestore & expand
part of the process, so i went with the dd copy instead - thinking i'd
be able to simply mfsadd -x and be done with it.

it's not a big deal, as we're not near the storage limit right now, but
i'd like to make use of all the space i've paid for on the B-drive up
to the 137gb limit. right now i'm missing out on something like 50gb
of unused space.

 

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needed to drop my recordings if i wanted to expand:
http/www.tivocommunity.com/tivo-vb/showthread.php?t=187167&highlight=partition+expand

 

[gary]

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The problem may have been using dd. That would copy the partition table
and basic drive information (format, etc) to the new drive, making it look
like it's a 120 or 80 meg drive. If msadd reads the same data,
it thinks there is no available (or formatted) drive space to expand into.

I believe there is a way to use mfsbackup/mfsrestore to move data from
old drives to new ones that allows you to use all the new space (up to
137mb)...


<wamanning@gmail.com> wrote in message
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>i have a 160gb drive pair that mfsinfo reports can be expanded 1 more
> time, but mfsadd reports "nothing to add!".
>
> an ideas as to why mfsadd and mfsinfo would not agree or why mfsadd
> will not expand this drive pair?
>
> http/brown-snout.com/events/2005_tivo_upgrade/tivo_no_expand.jpg
>
> two (2) new 160gb DTivo drives as follows:
> - these were created by copying a 120gb+80gb pair using dd
> - the 120gb+80gb drives were created from an OEM 40gb drive pair
> - mfsinfo reports the 160gb drives as:
> . total of 5 partition pairs in use for the pair
> . total of ~195gb in use for the pair
> . A-drive contains ~118gb and uses 3 partition pairs
> . B-drive contains ~78gb and uses 2 partition pairs
> . total of ~195gb in use for the pair
> . says "can be expanded 1 more time"
> - mfsadd -x reports
> . "nothing to add"
>
> walter
>
> http/brown-snout.com/events/2005_tivo_upgrade/tivo_no_expand.jpg
>