On Thursday 10 December 2009, Matt <lm7812@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I have CentOS 4.x installed on a single 500GB SATA drive. Drive is
> about 10 percent used. I would like to migrate to software RAID 5
> without reinstalling the OS. Was thinking 3 500GB drives. Is that
> possible or must I reinstall?
>
In theory you can create a 3-drive RAID-5 with a "missing drive", rsync your
filesystems over, and then repartition and force the existing drive to
rebuild in.
You can't boot off a RAID-5, so you'll need to put /boot on a separate
partition, also preferably raid-1'd on at least 2 of the drives.
It's not terribly hard but it's possibly to mess up and nuke your good drive
before you're ready, so you should have a full backup on yet another drive
anyway, and if you have that you might as well just build up a new system
on the 3 drives and then restore your old filesystems over it.
--
"No animals were harmed in the recording of this episode. We tried but that
damn monkey was just too fast."
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