Dynamically increase/reduce hardware raid partition?

From: Michael Bellears (MBellears_at_staff.datafx.com.au)
Date: 04/14/04

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    I have just installed Debian 3 on a Smart Array 6400 (4 disks (146.8G
    each) Raid 5) - This gives me a data partition of 409G.

    If I add an additional 146.8G drive, and update the array(Raid BIOS),
    the changes are not reflected when in Debian (i.e. It still only sees a
    409G partition, not ~520G)

    Is there anyway around this? Or everytime we add an additional drive, we
    must create a new array, and add it to fstab?

    Regards,
    MB

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