Greetings, could you please advise me how to proceed? On a server I have 2 RAID1-arrays, each consisting of 2 TB-drives: md5 : active raid1 sde1[0] sdf1[1] 976759936 blocks [2/2] [UU] md6 : active raid1 sdh1[1] sdg1[0] 976759936 blocks [2/2] [UU] md5 and md6 are right now physical volumes (PVs) in an LVM-volume-group. Nearly all the space is used right now (1.7 TB out of the ~2 TB). Now I would like to move things to a more reliable RAID6 consisting of all the four TB-drives ... How to do that with minimum risk? For sure it would be best to move all data aside, stop the arrays and build a new one ... etc Failing two drives and remove them from the RAID1s to build a new degraded RAID6 seems dangerous to me? Maybe I overlook a clever alternative? Suggestions welcome, thanks in advance. Stefan -- 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