On Wed, Dec 19, 2007 at 10:59:41PM +1100, Neil Brown wrote:
> On Wednesday December 19, cat@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm thinking of slowly replacing disks in my raid5 array with bigger
> > disks and then resize the array to fill up the new disks. Is this
> > possible? Basically I would like to go from:
> >
> > 3 x 500gig RAID5 to 3 x 1tb RAID5, thereby going from 1tb to 2tb of
> > storage.
> >
> > It seems like it should be, but... :)
>
> Yes.
>
> mdadm --grow /dev/mdX --size=max
Oh -joy-. I love linux sw raid. :) The only thing it seems to lack is
battery backed-up cache.
Thank you.
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