How do you expand a RAID5 Array?

[teddy mills]

http://joshuahayes.blogspot.com/2006/11/expand-existing-raid-5-array.html
http://allintech.info/?p=11


William Muriithi wrote:
>>> 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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