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From: Laurent CARON <lcaron@unix-scripts.info>
Subject: Re: Growing a raid 6 array
Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2007 00:08:51 +0100
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Justin Piszcz wrote:
> You can only grow a RAID5 array in Linux as of 2.6.20 AFAIK.


>From the man page:

Grow   Grow (or shrink) an array, or otherwise reshape it in some way.
Currently supported growth options including changing the active size of
component devices in RAID level 1/4/5/6 and changing the number of
active devices in RAID1.