Hi Hans, Usually arbiter bricks take a few MB. Are you sure you can’t spare a GB for all of them ? In case you have no other option, you will have to convert your volume in replica 2 and only then you can add just the data bricks. Something like this (based on my memory, so check the help and test properly on a test volume): gluster volume remove-brick data replica 2 gl3.lan:/gluster_bricks/sdx/sdx  gl1.lan:/gluster_bricks/sdx/sdx gl2.lan:/gluster_bricks/sdx/sdx commit force gluster volume add-brick data <brick pair 1> <brick pair 2> Best Regards,Strahil Nikolov  On Sunday, June 11, 2023, 4:34 PM, Hans Kuhl <h.kuhl(a)poesamo.com&gt; wrote: Hello all, how can I expand a arbitrated-distributed-replicated volume without adding additional arbiter bricks? my current gluster config is: Volume Name: data Type: Distributed-Replicate Volume ID: dcf75cf7-1937-4ce9-a7d0-46a56a3be4b4 Status: Started Snapshot Count: 0 Number of Bricks: 3 x (2 + 1) = 9 Transport-type: tcp Bricks: Brick1: gl1.lan:/gluster_bricks/sdc/sdc Brick2: gl2.lan:/gluster_bricks/sdc/sdc Brick3: gl3.lan:/gluster_bricks/sdx/sdx (arbiter) Brick4: gl2.lan:/gluster_bricks/sdd/sdd Brick5: gl3.lan:/gluster_bricks/sdc/sdc Brick6: gl1.lan:/gluster_bricks/sdx/sdx (arbiter) Brick7: gl3.lan:/gluster_bricks/sdd/sdd Brick8: gl1.lan:/gluster_bricks/sdd/sdd Brick9: gl2.lan:/gluster_bricks/sdx/sdx (arbiter) _______________________________________________ Users mailing list -- users(a)ovirt.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave(a)ovirt.org Privacy Statement: https://www.ovirt.org/privacy-policy.html oVirt Code of Conduct: https://www.ovirt.org/community/about/community-guidelines/ List Archives: https://lists.ovirt.org/archives/list/users@ovirt.org/message/RI7H7D4E4KV...