From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Robin Hill Subject: Re: Add disks and convert level 0 to level 5 Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2014 08:27:32 +0100 Message-ID: <20140911072732.GA12582@cthulhu.home.robinhill.me.uk> References: <20140901083137.4772c8c5@notabene.brown> <8CF94689-0AD6-4B87-BC0C-815F794549E7@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="jI8keyz6grp/JLjh" Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <8CF94689-0AD6-4B87-BC0C-815F794549E7@gmail.com> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Michael Muratet Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids --jI8keyz6grp/JLjh Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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. >=20 > 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. >=20 > I have partitioned the two new drives to type 'fd', /dev/sde and /dev/sdf >=20 > I believe the command to accomplish the change is this: >=20 > mdadm /dev/md0 --grow --level=3D5 --add /dev/sde /dev/sdf >=20 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 --=20 ___ =20 ( ' } | Robin Hill | / / ) | Little Jim says .... | // !! | "He fallen in de water !!" | --jI8keyz6grp/JLjh Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iEYEARECAAYFAlQRTuMACgkQShxCyD40xBKxHQCeKr7bgXAj9NRvyqacdOYzCzyp HXIAoNEOOWPkM6BVwMfVjxnDmz3P4Sl/ =SWp/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --jI8keyz6grp/JLjh--