On Sun, 07 Jul 2013 08:33:19 +0200 Christian <CvB@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 04.07.2013 01:24, NeilBrown wrote: > > I think you are just talking about making the devices bigger without > > increasing the number of devices. > > This possible for RAID10 as long as it uses a 'near' or 'offset' layout. It > > is not support for 'far' layout RAID10. > > And as I just found out after some googling, growing RAID10 requires at > least kernel 3.4rc. I have Ubuntu 12.04, which has kernel 3.2 > > I'm now thinking I could use a parted magic live cd to grow the array, > and then continue using it with my current linux distribution. Am I > right in this assumption? Or have I missed something? > > Thanks, Chris I don't know anything about parted magic live cds, but if you somehow boot into a nice new kernel that supports resizing RAID10 arrays, and resize the array and then go back to your old kernel, that should all work. NeilBrown
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