On Tue, 9 Feb 2010 15:11:14 +0000, Stroller wrote:

> You cannot remove one disk from the array and repartition it, because  
> the partition is across the array, not the disk. The single disk,  
> removed from a RAID 5 (specified by Paul Hartman) array does not  
> contain any partitions, just one stripe of them.

A 3 disk RAID 5 array can handle one disk failing. Although information
is striped across all three disks, any two are enough to retrieve it.

If this were not the case, it would be called AID 5.


-- 
Neil Bothwick

Always remember to pillage before you burn.

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