On Tuesday 12 September 2006 17:21, Neil Brown wrote: > 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. Thanks Neil. Appreciate the quick response. Regards Clive -- Clive Messer <clive@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> - 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
