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Hi, I have configured raid 5 with 3 HDD. However, the rule of raid5 is required minimum 3 HDD. Now I want to add more HDD in Raid5 can any ...
  1. 03-24-2009 #1
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    Raid 5

    Hi,

    I have configured raid 5 with 3 HDD. However, the rule of raid5 is required minimum 3 HDD. Now I want to add more HDD in Raid5 can any one tell me how I add more HDD in raid5?


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    Code:
    mdadm --add /dev/md0 /dev/sdd1
mdadm --grow /dev/md0 --raid-devices=4
    this assumes the drive you are trying to add is sdd1 and the array is md0, the array has to be unmounted to do this
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