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Add drives to Raid 5 array

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Just wondering if anyone has any idea how long it will take to restripe the RAID 5 array when I add 3 73 Gb drives to an existing 5 disk RAID 5 array . I have already installed the drives physically and formatted them to be pdisks

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Unless the system if very busy, it will probably take an hour. Also depends on processor speed, RAID card, cache etc. I would not do it during any copies or backup.
 
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Thanks, that's helpful . Backups will be done by that time and hopefully there will be very little activity to none when I am doing this as I aim to create a nologin file in /etc after I log in a couple of times as root

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