RAID5 with differently sized drives?

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I have a mdadm RAID5 across 6 1TB disks. One of the drives failed recently so I replaced it with a 2TB disk. Is there any way to make the RAID larger so it can use some of the extra space on the new drive?
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I have a mdadm RAID5 across 6 1TB disks. One of the drives failed recently so I replaced it with a 2TB disk. Is there any way to make the RAID larger so it can use some of the extra space on the new drive?
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I have a mdadm RAID5 across 6 1TB disks. One of the drives failed recently so I replaced it with a 2TB disk. Is there any way to make the RAID larger so it can use some of the extra space on the new drive?
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I have a mdadm RAID5 across 6 1TB disks. One of the drives failed recently so I replaced it with a 2TB disk. Is there any way to make the RAID larger so it can use some of the extra space on the new drive?
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