Re: Resizing raid-1 on replacing failed disk

On Saturday October 23, raid@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> 
> Could someone else please comment on the overall feasibility of resizing 
> a raid-1 array to physically larger disks via this process?
> 

Just adding a larger drive will not make a raid-1 larger.  
To make a raid-1 larger once all component drives (or partitions) are
large enough you have to either:
  1/ recreate the array (mdadm -C ....)
  2/ resize the array using a very recent 2.6 kernel and mdadm 1.7.0
      or later.

NeilBrown
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