From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Subject: Add disks to RAID5 array Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2004 17:20:04 +0100 Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids Hi, I had intended to build a RAID5 array using 6 x 250GB drives. However, 3 of 6 drives have proven to be faulty and have been RMA'd. I've successfully built the array using the remaining 3 x 250GB drives (details below) Now, when I get the other three disks back, how do I add them to this array and increase the size of the array? Is this possible? Thanks, R. [root@dude root]# mdadm --detail /dev/md5 /dev/md5: Version : 00.90.01 Creation Time : Thu Jul 22 14:13:50 2004 Raid Level : raid5 Array Size : 487283200 (464.71 GiB 498.98 GB) Device Size : 243641600 (232.35 GiB 249.49 GB) Raid Devices : 3 Total Devices : 3 Preferred Minor : 5 Persistence : Superblock is persistent Update Time : Thu Jul 22 17:00:18 2004 State : clean Active Devices : 3 Working Devices : 3 Failed Devices : 0 Spare Devices : 0 Layout : left-symmetric Chunk Size : 128K Number Major Minor RaidDevice State 0 8 2 0 active sync /dev/sda2 1 8 18 1 active sync /dev/sdb2 2 8 34 2 active sync /dev/sdc2 UUID : dde32a88:4b9bf7c1:1a634922:efbac4b0 Events : 0.448136 -- http://robinbowes.com