> > It's really quite easy to replace a drive. > > 1)Just create the same partition layout on the new drive. > You just want to do this*: > `fdisk -d /dev/hde > /etc/hde.sfdisk` > `fdisk -d /dev/hdg > /etc/hdg.sfdisk` > then if hdg fails `sfdisk /dev/hdg < /etc/hdg.sfdisk` > > 2)Do a 'raidhotadd /dev/md(array number) /dev/hd(partition number) for > each array. Look in /etc/raidtab for details on what maps to what. > > > *Personally I'm really lazy so I do this : > dd if=/dev/gooddrive of=/dev/replacementdrive count=1024 > echo "w" |fdisk /dev/replacementdrive > (copy the partition table from the good drive to the new drive, and use > fdisk to force linux to reread the partition table.) > Ah great (although the fdisk with Red Hat doesn't have a -d switch). I'll mail the Software RAID Howto maintainer and suggest he expands his section on recovery to include something like this. Jonathan
