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### Raid 1
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Raid 1 creates a mirror with even amount of drives.
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For `n=2` [raid 5](#raid-5) and raid 1 are basically the same.
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#### Create raid 1 device
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#### Convert raid 1 to raid 5
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Assuming the raid device is called `/dev/md0`.
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Assuming the raid 1 device is called `/dev/md0`.
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All other drives are part of the `md0` raid device.
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Note that mostly raid 1 devices consisting of 2 drives should be converted to
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[raid 5](#raid-5).
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- Remove all drives but 2 by running `mdadm /dev/md0 --fail /dev/sda1` and
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`mdadm /dev/md0 --remove /dev/sda1` where `sda1` is the drive to remove
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- Remove all drives but 2 (if there are more drives than that) by running
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`mdadm /dev/md0 --fail /dev/sda1` and `mdadm /dev/md0 --remove /dev/sda1`
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where `sda1` is the drive to remove
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- Make sure your raid 1 array has only 2 active drives by running
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`mdadm --grow /dev/md0 -n 2`
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- Now convert your raid 1 to a raid 5 device with `mdadm --grow /dev/md0 -l5`
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`mdadm --grow /dev/md0 -n4`
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- `mdadm` now reshapes the raid. You can monitor it by running
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`watch cat /proc/mdstat`
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### Raid 5
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Raid 5 creates a raid device with distributed parity.
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For `n>1` drives with the same size it creates a raid device with the size `n-1`
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drives.
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For `n=2` raid 5 and [raid 1](#raid-1) are basically the same.
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