Transforming an encrypted array from RAID 1 to RAID 6

May 16, 2016

Introduction #

Some context #

I have a NAS at home which runs on Debian Jessie. A NAS wouldn’t be a NAS without some storage, so I put in two disks with 4 TB each when I built it. Those two disks have actually been used in a setup with OpenMediaVault before that and already had a software-RAID on them. When migrating the disks (to Ubuntu at first) I learned about mdadm and that OpenMediaVault uses it. Great, that was a rather painless transition!