Extend Software RAID

[Justin Zygmont]

On Wed, 20 Jul 2005, Yanick Quirion wrote:

> Hi all,
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> I have a software RAID-5 on FC3 box using three disks and utility mdadm.
> I want to add another disk and extend my partition (ext3) without having
> to backup, re-create RAID and restore data. I want to do it online if
> it's possible, but I'm able to unmount the partition if it's necessary.
> At this time, I do not have LVM partition on top of my RAID. Do I need
> to create LVM partition to be able to extend the partition?

I think that's about the only way you can really resize a slice (solaris 
language)  Not sure if resize2fs will work like this, I don't think i'd 
trust playing arund like that on a production system, plus you'd have to 
unmount it anyway.