Setting up software RAID5 on 2nd, 3rd, and 4th disks

[Paul Howarth]

James Pifer wrote:
> I have a system up and running. I have added three other disks to the
> system that I'd like to setup RAID5 just to have a little bit of
> redundancy. These disks will be used for storage only, so hopefully
> setting up a software RAID won't slow down the system too much. 
> 
> Question is, how do I setup the RAID on these disks after the system
> already has FC5 running? I've done as part of the setup before. I have
> looked at some howto's but they seem pretty old. 
> 
> Is there a GUI for setting up RAID?

I don't think so but the manpage for mdadm has some useful examples.

Paul.