[mythtv-users] Storage Solution: Can ya help a brother out?

[John Drescher]

> So I guess part of my issue with the RAID stuff is how I've got 3x250 and
> 1x300 in a RAID5 array, so I'm missing 50G.  This is because I had a 250 go
> bad and replaced it with a 300.  Ideally, that extra 50 would've just been
> brought in and be usable - even if not RAID5.  Maybe I'm looking for too
> much.  I've had problems before with making a decision one way and then not
> being able to change it (because of the size of the filesystem), so I'm
> trying to be smarter about it.
>

If you added your array members as partitions, you should be able to
claim the extra 50GB by adding a second partition to the 300GB drive.

John