On Wed, 3 Jul 2002, Shawn Evans wrote: > I have my root partition on /dev/md0 (raid 1) and it has started crashing > for no unknown reason (I think the controller or the Harddrive is failing). > I need help doing two things. The harddrive? Only one? A RAID1 consists of at least two harddrives.. a raid1 with just one harddrive doesnt make any sense. > 1. How can I move the root partition from /dev/md0 to another physical > harddrive?... it is in and waiting. use: raidhotadd /dev/md0 <newdevice> (e.g. raidhotadd /dev/md0 /dev/hdd1) to add a mirror disk to the array (perhaps you should edit your /etc/raidtab accordingly before) OR use dd if=/dev/md0 of=<newdevice> to simply copy all contents to another device (at least of the same size as your raid1) OR use cp -a to copy the files logically to another directory (avoid copying /proc) BUT if the controller is failing, better use another pc or at least another controller to do this. > 2. How can I tell if the problem is the ide controller or the harddisk. > (This sytem had been running for over 190 days without a hick-up? What does syslog say? What says /proc/mdstat? What happens exactly? Viele Grüsse, Thorsten -- Thorsten Jungblut Universität Koblenz, Fachbereich Informatik http://www.netcorner.org/
