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How to extends/add Hetzned partition/disk
Hi ordered Hetzner server and it comes with 2x8T
but it shows me only 8T
How can I extend to 16T ?
https://i.imgur.com/iP8hN6L.png
https://i.imgur.com/yeqHg66.png
Thanks
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Go into the rescue console and reinstall and follow the directions for using raid 0 which will combine your two drives as one.
How do I access rescue console ?
Hetzner directed me to https://wiki.hetzner.de/index.php/Installimage/en#Drives
Cant make anything out of it
that ? https://i.imgur.com/Hk4HwvH.png
then what ?
or this https://i.imgur.com/TeGMksi.png ?
Its this one, remember the password it gives you id paste it in a notepad or something then either restart your server in ssh or from hetzner control panel, once booted up type in "installimage", select the OS you want and then follow the on screen instructions, you can then edit the install script and you want to change the raid level to 0 do not there is a option for you to set SW raid to on or off and one for the radi level make sure you change the right one, then you can change hostname and partitions but thats down to you, once you finished editing press F10 and yes and then let the install finish.
All done
if you need help let me know the OS you want and i will give you the commands to use to put directly into rescue system to install via CLI
ubuntu 19.04
im on installimage step i try that
ok so what to change ? https://i.imgur.com/bhvT0Jm.png
change
SWRAID to 0 ? or leave at 1 ?
and SWRAIDLEVET to 0 ?
Swraid 1
Swraidlevel 0
Until a drive fails
yolo.
But also yodo
cheers doing it again cuz did opposite
thanks all, looks like i made it
https://i.imgur.com/RyYRYvc.png
Remember to backup your files.. you are running raid 0, if one of your disk fail/broken then you will lost your data
Lood guck yith wour yolo!
Raid 0 master life
I would suggest, that you check your drives before setting anything up.
You would regret it, if your drives have failed sectors already.
How would one check for failed sectors?
badblocks -v /dev/sdX
If a probability of one drive failing within a year is say 3%, raid 1 will make the probability of loosing data (due to both drives failing at the same time) be about 0.09%.
Raid 0, on the other hand will make that 6%.
Do raid 0 to combine the hd into one big hard disk 16TB
Nice. We call it yoloraid btw, not raid 0.
Setting up RAID-0 will allow you to do this, and you've been given good advice on how to achieve it already.
But, just in case you haven't caught on, multiple people are strongly suggesting that this is not a smart thing to do, as it greatly increases your chance of data loss if one of the two drives fails.