Adding ide drive to existing raid 5 help
 

hi, our company is using a server with a raid5 (software) which i built, they use the hardrives (hdc1, hde1, hdg1). and now the free space is getting smaller and i wish to add. As i understood it i should be able to add drives to it by just doing a raidhotadd /dev/md0 /dev/hdi1.
the last drive is connected to a promise ultra133 tx2 controler.

before i issued a raidhotadd command i added the the drive to my /etc/raidtab.

raiddev /dev/md0
raid-level 5
nr-raid-disks 4
nr-spare-disks 0
persistent-superblock 1
parity-algorithm left-symmetric
chunk-size 32
device /dev/hdc1
raid-disk 0
device /dev/hde1
raid-disk 1
device /dev/hdg1
raid-disk 2
device /dev/hdi1
raid-disk 3

after issuing the raidhotadd command i did a watch -n1 cat /proc/mdstat to watch if would sync it and it did.

But the problem is the filesystem is still the same size after an hour or two. i tried to remove it and add it again after rebooting am i doing anything wrong???? help!!!

note: all drives are 80 gig seagate and all are formated as autodetect, /dev/md0 is ext3

by the way here is an output of my /proc/mdstat

Personalities : [linear] [raid0] [raid1] [raid5] [multipath]
read_ahead 1024 sectors
md0 : active raid5 hdi1[3] hdg1[2] hde1[1] hdc1[0]
156296192 blocks level 5, 32k chunk, algorithm 2 [3/3] [UUU]

unused devices: <none>
shouldnt there be 4/4 ??

help me please!!!!!!!!!! how do i add drives to raid 5

i had the same problem today
i found a util called raidreconf
i copied my old raidtab file to raidtab.old
added the new drive to the new raidtab
and ran the following command

raidreconf -o raidtab.old -n raidtab.new -m /dev/md0

heres the man page for raidreconf
http://linuxcommand.org/man_pages/raidreconf8.html