I have a software raid 5 setup with four drives. One drive failed. I got a replacement but unfortunately it turns out that my original disks were just a few gigs over the replacement. It seems that most manufacturers don't actually advertise the REAL capacity of the disk, so getting one that is the same size as the old ones could be tough.(and they aren't available anymore of course...)
So my question... can I resize the array while it is missing a drive? The raid is <50% full, and the few gigs is only a few percent. In retrospect I shouldn't have sized them right to the limit...
Any ideas would be appreciated. Thanks! James - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
