Ok, so is it possible to build such an array? I have 3 empty disks and 1 full of data. I would like to use the 3 disks to build the array, copy the data from the full one into the array and then add the now empty disk. I read something of "degraded" arrays, but I haven't seen a self-explanatory howto about this anywhere. Mads Peter Bach wrote: > Victor wrote: > > Is it still possible to use a RAID-5 array consisting out of 4 disks if > > one is missing? > > Yes. See > http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/other-formats/html_single/Software-RAID-HOWTO.html#ss2.4 > > -- > Mads Peter Bach > Systemadministrator, Det Humanistiske Fakultet, Aalborg Universitet > Kroghstræde 3 - 5.111, DK-9220 Aalborg Øst - (+45) 96358062 > # whois MPB1-DK@whois.dk-hostmaster.dk > > - > 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 - 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
