I currently have a 2 drive RAID-1 array. I would like to convert it into a 3 drive RAID-5 array. I'd rather avoid raidreconf because I'v never used it before. It seems to me, that I should be able to run the existing RAID-1 in degraded mode (only one drive), and then copy it's contents to a degraded (only two drive) RAID-5 array. The question, of course, is how do I create a RAID-5 array in degraded mode? After the copy, I would then hotadd the other former RAID-1 drive into the RAID-5 and let it reconstruct the array. Any thoughts? Please reply to me directly, I'm off the list for now. Thanks, Ryan Mack - 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
