On Tuesday September 12, clive@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > I currently have a 4 disk raid5 array which I wish to move to another machine. > In the current machine it is comprised of sda1/sdb1/sdc1/sdd1. When I move it > to the new machine the disks will all shift up by 2. ie. the partitions will > now be sdc1/sdd1/sde1/sdf1. If I 'mdadm --assemble' the array on the new > machine with the new partition names will md figure it all out or am I going > to trash my data? > > For reference my current mdadm.conf ...... > > DEVICE /dev/sd*[0-9] > ARRAY /dev/md0 level=raid5 num-devices=4 > UUID=f1949e2c:bec621e4:de55ae15:4f336899 Providing you don't already have a /dev/md0 on the new machine, which should work perfectly - no confusion. NeilBrown - 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
