Hi, I have a Raid 1 with 3 drives, the following layout (the internal bitmap is already removed): ----------------------------------------------------------------- md20 : active raid1 sdj1[2] sdi1[1] sdn1[0] 732442432 blocks super 1.2 [3/3] [UUU] ----------------------------------------------------------------- I tried to change it to Raid 5, but I'm getting aways an error. ----------------------------------------------------------------- mdadm --grow /dev/md20 --level=5 --raid-devices=3 -c 32 \ --backup-file=/home/kraush/work/raidLevelChange Impossibly level change request for RAID1 ----------------------------------------------------------------- I tried it with various permutations (+/- raid-devices, c, ...). Is something in my command wrong or is the level change not possible? This is on Debian 7, mdadm - v3.3-65-g2167de7 - 11th March 2014 Regards, Hans -- 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