On 03/05/2015 12:56 PM, Stefan Lamby wrote: > Hello List. > > I was setting up a new machine using ubuntu 14.04.02 lts using its installer, > configuring a raid 10 with 2 disks and lvm on top of it. I was using 2 disks and > now I like to add 2 more disks to the array so i want to end up with 4 disks, no > spare. > > Searching the internet I found that I am not able to --grow the array with the > mdadm version this ubuntu is using (v3.2.5). > Is that right? > > So I decided to build a new array that way and try to move my data afterwards, > which failed: > (Is it OK to do it that way or do you recommend another?) No, you should be able to do this. Probably without any shutdown. Please show the full layout of your drives, partitions, and lvm. I suggest lsdrv[1] for working layouts. If your email is set to use utf8, just paste the result in a reply. Regards, Phil Turmel [1] https://github.com/pturmel/lsdrv -- 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