On Fri Apr 10, 2009 at 11:54:35PM +0200, Piergiorgio Sartor wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> is it possible to grow a RAID-6, not by adding
> more drives, but by extending the partions which
> are composing the array?
>
> In other words, let's say I've "n" partitions of
> "x" GB forming a RAID-6 array. After some time I
> increase the size of each partition to "y" GB, of
> course y > x.
> Is it then possible to use the complete space
> growing the array?
> How?
>
Yes - "mdadm --grow --size=max /dev/mdX". You'll also need to grow the
filesystem afterwards of course.
Cheers,
Robin
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