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On Freitag 27 November 2009, Dan Cowsill wrote: |
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> Hello list, |
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> Currently I have two terabyte hard disks in a RAID1 configuration |
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> using software RAID. What I'd like to do is add a third disk and |
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> arrive at the end with a RAID5 array. The problem is I have limited |
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> disk space and not enough room to back up all of the data on the array |
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> in its current form. What I'd like to know is if it is possible to |
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> use two disks to make a degraded RAID5 array, move the data onto it |
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> from one of the mirror disks, and then add the mirrored disk into the |
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> new array? |
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> Thanks, |
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> D |
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easy, have a look at 'grow'. Oh and use google. There are a lot of examples |
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how to go from raid1 to raid5. It is easy. No disk pulling is needed. |
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