Hi Andrew, are you using the raid for boot and root?

On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 7:52 AM, Andrew Robinson
<and...@boohahaonline.com>wrote:

> Hey has anyone run into issues with trying to grow a Linux software raid?
> I’ve just finished syncing all of my data from 3x2TB (in raid 5) to 3x3TB
> (still raid 5).  The raid array should show a capacity of approx. 5.5 TB,
> but instead shows only 4.  I’ve tried re running the mdadm –grow command
> but with no success.  Is there are a hard limit to the size of the array in
> Linux?****
>
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>
> I should mention that each of these drives are formatted as GTP drives,
> with 1 partition of type FD that consumes the entire 2.79 TB of space on
> each drive.****
>
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>
> I’ve been using he instructions located at
> https://raid.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Growing#Expanding_existing_partitionsif
>  anyone is curious to what I’ve done so far
> ****
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