RE: question about adding a disk: Now possible

1999-09-18 Thread Hubert Tonneau
This is a Pliant (http://pliant.cams.ehess.fr/) script that should enable you to make changes in a RAID configuration with (or with the hope of) no data loss. Lets take an example: The old /etc/raidtab configuration file is: raiddev /dev/md0 raid-level5 nr-raid-disks

RE: question about adding a disk

1999-09-17 Thread Bruno Prior
> I currently have a 3 disk raid set running level 5. I would like to > add another > disk to the set bringing the set up to 4 disks. Is is possible to add the disk > to the current raid without distroying data? No. You will have to backup your array, rebuild it with 4 disks and then restore from