On Freitag 27 November 2009, Dan Cowsill wrote: > Hello list, > > Currently I have two terabyte hard disks in a RAID1 configuration > using software RAID. What I'd like to do is add a third disk and > arrive at the end with a RAID5 array. The problem is I have limited > disk space and not enough room to back up all of the data on the array > in its current form. What I'd like to know is if it is possible to > use two disks to make a degraded RAID5 array, move the data onto it > from one of the mirror disks, and then add the mirrored disk into the > new array? > > Thanks, > D >
easy, have a look at 'grow'. Oh and use google. There are a lot of examples how to go from raid1 to raid5. It is easy. No disk pulling is needed.
