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Use
fdisk -H 224 -S 56
to make one partition per drive.
Create new RAID5:
mdadm -C /dev/md_d0 -c 128 -n 5 -l 5 /dev/sd[bcdef]1
Setup crypto:
cryptsetup -c aes-cbc-essiv:sha256 -s 128 -h sha256 --align-payload=1024 luksFormat /dev/md_d0 cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/md_d0 r0 pvcreate --metadatasize 506k /dev/mapper/r0 pvs /dev/mapper/r0 -o+pe_start PV VG Fmt Attr PSize PFree 1st PE /dev/dm-0 lvm2 a- 7.28t 7.28t 512.00k
md1 : active raid5 sdf[0] sdj[4] sdi[3] sdh[2] sdg[1]
2930278144 blocks level 5, 64k chunk, algorithm 2 [5/5] [UUUUU]
md0 : active raid5 sda[0] sde[4] sdd[3] sdc[5](F) sdb[1]
3907030784 blocks level 5, 64k chunk, algorithm 2 [5/4] [UU_UU]
PV VG Fmt Attr PSize PFree /dev/mapper/r0 v0 lvm2 a- 3.64T 16.03G /dev/mapper/r1 v1 lvm2 a- 2.73T 0
LV VG Attr LSize Origin Snap% Move Log Copy% apollo2 v0 -wi-ao 160.00G audio2 v0 -wi-ao 800.00G home2 v0 -wi-ao 300.00G playpen2 v0 -wi-ao 500.00G video2 v0 -wi-ao 1.90T miranda2 v1 -wi-ao 730.00G p2 v1 -wi-ao 2.02T