At 06:52 PM 12/15/1999 +0000, Jim Ford wrote:
>I was so pleased at the performance of my raid5 setup that I decided to
>try adding another disk. I altered the raidtab to show the new partition
>(not as a spare) and rebooted. The new partition was detected OK but was
>added to md0 as a spare, which was not as I hoped for. I had hoped that it
>would just add to md0 according to the formula in the HOWTO (N-1)*S, thus
>increasing the available disk space. /dev/mdstat showed that it was part
>of md0, but the size of md0 hadn't changed. I also found that even if I
>marked the new partition as a failed-disk in the raidtab, the system still
>insisted on using it - it's only when I physically remove the disk that
>the array is reconstructed. How do I add a new partition to an existing
>raid5 array?
>
Jim,
Not exactly sure, but try "raidhotadd" and see what happens.
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