Hi gurus, A simple question. I have studied the documents Software raid howto http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Boot+Root+Raid+LILO.html and scoured google. Given a raid1 on a machine /dev/md0 consists of /dev/hdc and /dev/hde. I want to grab one of those disks and move it to a new machine and make it available there. What I have thought about: turn off machine. grab /dev/hde. put in new machine say at position /dev/hdc (for grins). now take an identical copy of /etc/raidtab from the original machine. install it as /etc/raidtab modprobe raid1 mknod /dev/md0 b 9 0 (if necessary). raidstart /dev/md0 will this work? questions: 1) when do i do mkraid /dev/md0 (ie what does that do... will it zap all the stuff in /dev/hdc => ie what was on old /dev/hde??) 2) what is the mysterious failed-disk parameter in /etc/raidtab used for - ie will it help here preserve the data while we start up the raid. 3) lets say i want to start the raid without a partner drive, ie just with /dev/hdc ( "drive that used to be known as /dev/hde" "my apologies to glyph who used to be Prince"), what do i do??? Thanks, Mitchell - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
