On Tue, Apr 04, 2000 at 10:28:47PM +0100, Darren Nickerson wrote:
> I've found some cash, and want to add a spare disk to our raid5 array for
> added redundancy.
>
> Can this be done? It is a matter of
>
> 1. raidstop
> 2. add spare to raidtab
> 3. raidhotadd spare
To add a spare? I'm fairly certain (assuming the disk/partition is the same
size as the rest of the stripe) it's just:
1. add disk to system
2. raidhotadd spare
If you aren't using autostarting arrays, then you'll probably need to add the
spare-disk to raidtab.
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