2010/1/21 Jimmy Stewpot <[email protected]>: > Hello, > > Is it possible to grow Linux software RAID volumes after the initial > deployment. For example can we have a RAID5 array with 3 drives and then add > an extra drive later? Is the Linux software raid intelligent enough to move > the blocks of data around to take advantage of the additional redundancy that > we would have from 4 drives? > I am guessing that if its possible it would be a two step process. One would > be adding the drive into the software raid set. Then the second would be > increasing the file systems size? > > any feedback would be great. > > Jimmy. > Yes it is Just take a look at that. http://raid.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Growing I cannot possibly explain that better.
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