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Growing 2-disk RAID1 array to a 4-disk RAID10 array in Debian
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Growing 2-disk RAID1 array to a 4-disk RAID10 array in Debian

Question: I have a two-disk RAID-1 array in mdadm, and I purchased two more disks. How can I grow the array to use the new disks?

Answer: This took some strategy and time. In short, we install the disks, create a new RAID-10 with two missing disks, copy data over, and replace disks one at a time.

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Luke B 26 July 2018 • 4 min read
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