[TriLUG] Adding HDD to a Software RAID - Possible?

[Matt Pusateri]

On Mon, October 31, 2005 3:54 pm, Roy Vestal wrote:
> I have a collegue who has a machine running FC4 with a software RAID
> running 4 200GB disks. Is there a way to add another disk, Total of 5,
> to this without loosing the data? He does not have backups, so
> rebuilding and restoring is not an option.
>
> TIA


More info please, how is his raid configured?  Is using regular
/dev/md devices? Does he have LVM running?  What type of drives(scsi,
ide, sata)?  Does he just want more disk space or does he also want to
change the raid type?

Matt P.