Re: very degraded RAID5, or increasing capacity by adding discs

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Janek Kozicki wrote:

Is it possible anyhow to create a "very degraded" raid array - a one
that consists of 4 drives, but has only TWO ?

No, but you can make a degraded 3 drive array, containing 2 drives and then add the next drive to complete it.

The array can then be grown (man mdadm, GROW section), to add the fourth.

Regards,

Richard
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