On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 2:30 AM, andrey larin <ubergit...@yandex.ru> wrote: > let suppose > sda and sdb is raid 1 md1 > and new sdc > remove sdb from raid > mdadm /dev/md1 -f /dev/sdb > mdadm /dev/md1 -r /dev/sdb > then create degraded raid 5 > don't forget md1 is still running > mdadm --create /dev/md2 --level 5 -n 3 /dev/sdb /dev/sdc missing > then copy all data from md1 to md2 > fix /etc/fstab and /boot/grub/grub.conf > destroy md1 > and add sda to md2
Excellent. All I need to know is that there is indeed a mechanism for doing this and that I am not crazy. Man pages should fill in the rest. Thanks for your help, Andrey
