How do you expand a RAID5 Array?

William Muriithi william.muriithi-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org
Mon Aug 10 17:04:38 UTC 2009


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>>That seems *really* likely to depend heavily on your hardware choices.
>
> I'm beginning to see that.  This is inherited hardware, and I am stuck
> with RAID5 and no resizing.
>
Hmm, do you have lvm running on that box? RAID will not help with resizing.

Just saw Madi response and it got  me thinking, can one mix hardware
RAID and software RAID. If that is possible, you can setup it up as
Madi advised and LVM should allow you to make the whole thing a single
file space


William
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