Grow / Change mdadm 2 Drive Raid Level-1 to Level-5
Scenario: I had two 1tb drives raided with mdadm level 1. I finally filled up my raid, and wanted to ultimatly add another 1tb to the raid. Therefore I wanted to change my raid to level 5, and add this third drive. As a result the raid should become 2tb in usable space. However I [...]
October 30, 2009
• Tags: level1, level5, Linux, mdadm, mirror, raid, Unix • Posted in: Tutorial • No Comments
mdadm not working? makes /dev/md_0p1
Yes were are idiots, well it took me three times to make the software raid with mdadm before i realized what i was doing wrong. Once your done creating your raid, /dev/md0 is working correctly, edited fstab, and mounted it, it never crossed my mind not to reboot it right away. You first have to [...]