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| On 9/10/2013 10:23 AM, Joseph Spenner wrote:
| > But is there a way to stage the new system so all I need to do is
| > move the RAID from the old system to the new system?
| > Or do I need to do anything at all?
| > I'm not sure if the existing system has some special packages which
| > make it able to use those large partitions. It doesn't appear to
| > have 'parted' installed.
|
| what kind of raid is this? hardware, mdraid, what? if hardware
| raid, then what sort of hardware raid controller, and does that
| controller support moving volumes between systems?
|
| are both systems totally identical hardware? in that case, I'd simply
| move ALL the disks, including the system volume.
I agree here. Looking at the future, consider e2label to assign or change a label on an ext2/3/4 file system or xfs_admin -L <label> /dev/sdc1 for XFS and then move to using file system labels instead. It will avoid the device enumeration problems discussed earlier.
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