From: Robin Hill <robin@robinhill.me.uk>
To: Michael Muratet <muratetm@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Add disks and convert level 0 to level 5
Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2014 08:27:32 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140911072732.GA12582@cthulhu.home.robinhill.me.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8CF94689-0AD6-4B87-BC0C-815F794549E7@gmail.com>
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On Wed Sep 10, 2014 at 11:15:24AM -0500, Michael Muratet wrote:
> I have a two-disk RAID0 system that is working splendidly, thanks to
> the list for the help.
>
> I managed to get my hands on more identical disks and since I have the
> disks and because I'm adding precious data, I'd like to add two more
> disks and grow to RAID5.
>
> I have partitioned the two new drives to type 'fd', /dev/sde and /dev/sdf
>
> I believe the command to accomplish the change is this:
>
> mdadm /dev/md0 --grow --level=5 --add /dev/sde /dev/sdf
>
If you've partitioned the drives then presumably you'd want to use the
partitions here (/dev/sde1 and /dev/sdf1?) rather than the full drives.
Cheers,
Robin
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Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-08-31 12:43 Converting RAID5 to RAID0 Mike Muratet
2014-08-31 17:13 ` Robin Hill
2014-08-31 22:31 ` NeilBrown
2014-09-10 16:15 ` Add disks and convert level 0 to level 5 Michael Muratet
2014-09-11 0:27 ` NeilBrown
2014-09-17 14:59 ` Michael Muratet
2014-09-17 15:15 ` Robin Hill
2014-09-11 7:27 ` Robin Hill [this message]
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