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From: Janek Kozicki <janek_listy@wp.pl>
Subject: Re: very degraded RAID5, or increasing capacity by adding discs
Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2007 00:25:50 +0200
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Richard Scobie said:     (by the date of Tue, 09 Oct 2007 08:26:35 +1300)

> No, but you can make a degraded 3 drive array, containing 2 drives and 
> then add the next drive to complete it.
> 
> The array can then be grown (man mdadm, GROW section), to add the fourth.

Oh, good. Thanks, I must've been blind that I missed this.
This completely solves my problem.

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Janek Kozicki                                                         |