Hello! I intend to change the RAID configuration on a RedHat Linux server(with kernel 2.4.9-6) that uses raidtools 0.90. At this moment I have a RAID 1 array made up of two devices /dev/hde2 and /dev/hdg2. The problem is these are 20MB hard drives and they're almost full at this moment. I have another 2 60GB drives that I intend to use instead of those two disks. Another problem is that I cannot keep the 20GB drives that are to be moved on another server. Here is my scenario for the move , I would like to know whether this is possible: 1) install the two 60Gb hard-drives as /dev/hdf and /dev/hdh (slaves on the two IDE buses used by the current RAID installation) 2) initialize a new RAID 1 device /dev/md1 made up of /dev/hdf2 and /dev/hdh2 format it. 3) copy the contents of the first RAID device (/dev/md0/) to the new RAID(/dev/md1) device. Now comes the hard part that I am not sure it will work: 4) stop /dev/md0 and /dev/md1. Update /etc/raidtab to leave only the second RAID installation with the 60Gb hard disks repositioned as masters on the IDE buses ( I also want to physically move the new disks in the position of the old disks) 5) turn off the computer and eject the old hard drives and reposition the new hard-drives 6)Turn the computer on and pray to God it works Will that work? Is there another way to do that? I need your help Thank you very much for your support Dovli __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Games - play chess, backgammon, pool and more http://games.yahoo.com/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
