You forgot the most important step. Step 0: ensure you have a valid backup of your data. On 3/26/09, Federico <undicizeri@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi all, > I've two disks in RAID1 formatted with reiserfs which, in my system, > has amazingly poor performance... I want to switch to ext3 and in a > couple of kernel releases to upgrade to ext4. > This is my plan: > > 1 - Remove one disk from the array > 2 - Format the removed disk with ext3 filesystem > 3 - Copy all the data from the degradeted RAID to the newly ext3-formatted > disk > 4 - Create a new degradeted RAID1 with the ext3 disk > 5 - Modify grub and reconfigure mdadm to boot in the ext3 RAID1 disk. > 6 - Reboot. > 7 - Reformat the reiserfs disk > 8 - Add the formatted disk to the ext3 RAID and start to syncing. > > Is there a more easy and failproof method? > I'm a bit scared to lose same (or all) of my data during the process... > Thank you for your help :P > -- > 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 > -- Sent from my mobile device Greg Freemyer Head of EDD Tape Extraction and Processing team Litigation Triage Solutions Specialist http://www.linkedin.com/in/gregfreemyer First 99 Days Litigation White Paper - http://www.norcrossgroup.com/forms/whitepapers/99%20Days%20whitepaper.pdf The Norcross Group The Intersection of Evidence & Technology http://www.norcrossgroup.com -- 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
