I'm not sure if it is going to work or not, what you suggested.

But if you can run all disks at the same time, then why not create a
new array and copy the files over?

On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 8:39 PM, John Robinson
[off-list ref] wrote:

Before I have to go to a customer's premises and try it, I wanted to ask if
anyone had already done anything like this: I have a CentOS 5 system with
0.90 metadata and type fd partitions with RAID-5 over 3 discs. I want to
grow it by replacing the drives. If I dd the small partitions onto larger
ones on the new discs, then reboot, will the system recognise the RAID-5 -
which now has its metadata somewhere in the middle of the paritions not at
the end - so that I can then --grow?

Cheers,

John.
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