On 1/28/19 4:07 AM, Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI wrote:
Given a Linux system that runs with two HDs with several partitions each, configured as RAID-1 I want to install a different distribution, using the same RAID-1 HDs, hopefully without loosing the data in /home. The new distribution install does not understand RAID, meaning I will have to mdadm in an x-console.
That would cause me to reject that distribution.
Question: do I simply assemble the existing partitions (mdadm -A) or do I have to create them (mdadm -C) ?
Some distros have more functionality in an advanced/non-gui installer. Might be worth investigating.
If there's no option to manually deal with raid before installing, I'd consider that distro broken.
Phil
