My current set-up is 1 PC that has 6 drives (1TB each) set up as a server (BigData). The partitions are gpt, and all the drives are partitioned as... BiosBoot (1Mg-mirror) root (8Meg-mirror) swap (16Gb) download (50Gb-raid10) data (raid6) the setup is that the 50Gb is seen as 100Gb, and the data is seen as the rest. Each drive is partitioned exactly the same... on disk 3-6 the space is partitioned exactly the same, but unused in the case of "boot, root, swap, download" I also have a PC that has 2 drives (BorgCube), that are non-specific (I'm moving things around) but will eventually have BiosBoot, root, swap, download, and home... set up as mirror, mirror, mirror, raid10, and mirror. The BorgCube, once re-set up, will have its drives on a PCI Sata card and assuming it works I will then need to move the hard drives from BigData to its (borgCube) on board sata connections. My questions are... 1. what is the best logical steps to do this, things like sequence of events (get pc working on sata card, attach all additional drives, run mdadm -scan, etc.) 2. Once all running (assuming it works) how do I then remove the partitions that were originally on the BigData that are no longer required such as BigDrive-BiosBoot, BigDrive-root, BigDrive-swap. BigDrive-dowload. 3. After removing the partitions (that are lower in the order, data is the 6th partition) how do I then recover that space into a disk partition and then recover that space as and ext4 partition... as I believe that you first have to do something with the physical disk partitions then do something with the mdadm raid partitions, then something with the file system on top of the raid partition. So removing disk and raid partitions 1-5 (boot, root, etc.) and finally having a mdadm raid of 6 disks, with just one partition... set up as disk (1-6) partitions, mdadm on 6 disks, ext4 on mdadm raid set up. -- 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
