David Hajek wrote: > is it possible to adding disks to existing software > RAID 5 array without backup/restore cycle? Take a look at raidreconf available from http://unthought.net/raidreconf/index.shtml. No matter what, you should make sure a good backup exists, but this might save you from doing the restore. Regards, Anders K. Pedersen - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html