From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bill Davidsen Subject: Disk upgrade Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2011 10:09:11 -0400 Message-ID: <4DF22587.60509@tmr.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Linux RAID List-Id: linux-raid.ids I'm running out of room in a box to add drives, so I want to go to larger drives. Unfortunately I have but one bay left. What I would like to do is put in a single drive, create a raid-10f2 array with a missing device, and copying all of the data off the existing arrays onto the raid-10 array, then diddling the boot so I can get up off the new drive, removing the old drives, adding another new drive and adding that to the array, along with a spare, perhaps. Any particular problems with that plan? It leaves the existing drives intact, and critical data is backup via rsync on both a removable device and to network storage. -- Bill Davidsen We are not out of the woods yet, but we know the direction and have taken the first step. The steps are many, but finite in number, and if we persevere we will reach our destination. -me, 2010