Adam Zion via plug on 16 Dec 2021 14:38:47 -0800


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[PLUG] Growing a RAID 5

I had a 1 TB RAID 5 consisting of 2 1TB drives (yes, that works). To double its capacity, I purchased two more 1TB drives. They were mounted as /dev/sdc and /dev/sdd, and I created an ext4 partition on each so that I had /dev/sdc1 and /dev/sdd1.

Then, I needed to issue commands to grow the RAID. I did as follows:

sudo --grow --raid-devices=4 /dev/md0
and

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