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From: "Anders K. Pedersen" <akp@cohaesio.com>
Subject: Re: adding disk to raid5 array
Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2002 21:11:06 +0200
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David Hajek wrote:
> is it possible to adding disks to existing software
> RAID 5 array without backup/restore cycle?

Take a look at raidreconf available from
http://unthought.net/raidreconf/index.shtml. No matter what, you should
make sure a good backup exists, but this might save you from doing the
restore.

Regards,
Anders K. Pedersen