It depends on what you want to achieve. You can replace all HDDs one by one and rebuild. That will result in a larger RAID5 container with free space where you can create new drives.
If you want to keep your data, you can even delete your existing volume once all rebuilds have finished + then recreate a new volume of full size BUT without initializing it !!! In your OS will now appear a drive with full size of your RAID5 (appx. 5TBs) with empty space after your existing partition(s). You just have to manage to expand partition and filesystem(s). But I sense another issue here. Unless you already have a GPT label on your drive, you won't be able to extend partitions beyond 2TB limit. Never forget to backup your data!!! Cheers -------- Original-Nachricht -------- > Datum: Tue, 20 Oct 2009 17:47:09 -0600 > Von: Michael Best <[email protected]> > An: [email protected] > Betreff: Reconfigure 6 disk Raid-5 PE2950 PERC 5/i Integrated Centos 5.3 > I have a 6 disk Raid 5 on 6x250G drives, that I would to reconfigure > onto 6x1TB drives. I took out one of the drives and replace it with a > 1TB drive, which it immediately started to rebuild on. > > I can stop it from rebuilding, but then I can't use that individual disk > as it's apparently part of the array. > > Can I replace the 6 disks one at a time, and then reconfigure the array > to different dimensions using the newly sized disks? > > -Mike > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-PowerEdge mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge > Please read the FAQ at http://lists.us.dell.com/faq _______________________________________________ Linux-PowerEdge mailing list [email protected] https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge Please read the FAQ at http://lists.us.dell.com/faq
