From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: John Robinson Subject: Growing after replacing with larger discs Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2010 17:39:47 +0000 Message-ID: <4B9A7C63.6090202@anonymous.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Linux RAID List-Id: linux-raid.ids Before I have to go to a customer's premises and try it, I wanted to ask if anyone had already done anything like this: I have a CentOS 5 system with 0.90 metadata and type fd partitions with RAID-5 over 3 discs. I want to grow it by replacing the drives. If I dd the small partitions onto larger ones on the new discs, then reboot, will the system recognise the RAID-5 - which now has its metadata somewhere in the middle of the paritions not at the end - so that I can then --grow? Cheers, John.