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From: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
To: CaT <cat@zip.com.au>
Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: raid5 resizing
Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2007 22:59:41 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <18281.1965.40403.734289@notabene.brown> (raw)
In-Reply-To: message from CaT on Wednesday December 19

On Wednesday December 19, cat@zip.com.au wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm thinking of slowly replacing disks in my raid5 array with bigger
> disks and then resize the array to fill up the new disks. Is this
> possible? Basically I would like to go from:
> 
> 3 x 500gig RAID5 to 3 x 1tb RAID5, thereby going from 1tb to 2tb of
> storage.
> 
> It seems like it should be, but... :)

Yes.

mdadm --grow /dev/mdX --size=max

NeilBrown

  reply	other threads:[~2007-12-19 11:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-12-19 11:17 raid5 resizing CaT
2007-12-19 11:59 ` Neil Brown [this message]
2007-12-19 12:23   ` CaT
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-05-01  5:23 CaT
2006-05-01  5:33 ` Neil Brown
2006-05-01 12:28   ` Mike Hardy

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