Thanks Scott.
I read all this docs and found some interesting thinks about my
environment that I had forgotten.
I use mkinitrd to put raid1 module into kernel, thus all are fine now.
My centos installation had raid1 as a module and due this i had so troubles.
On 1/24/06, Scott Silva <ssilva@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Cleber P. de Souza spake the following on 1/24/2006 6:11 AM:
> > Hi Scott.
> >
> > It's exactly what I want to do.
> > any suggestion?
> >
> It will take a little bit of work, but it can be done as I did it a couple of
> years on our mailservers. The second hard drive will need to be blank to make
> things easier.
> Get a copy of the software raid howto
> (http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Software-RAID-HOWTO.html),
> and read it.You might want to look carefully at the sections on mdadm and swap
> on raid. Also get this article;
> http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2002/12/05/RAID.html. Make sure you
> have a current rescue boot floppy or cd as grub will have problems until you
> get it corrected.
> The migration part is in this section;
> http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Software-RAID-HOWTO-7.html#ss7.6
> but use mdadm instead, as you can make a raid array with one drive missing,
> copy the data from the old drive to the equivalent raid device on the new
> drive. Then edit your /etc/fstab "carefully" and reboot.
> If everythings running ok on the second drive, then you can copy the partition
> structure to the old drive and add the partitions to their respective array
> and let them rebuild.
>
>
>
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