Re: migrating raid-1 to different drive geometry ?

2005-01-24 Thread Neil Brown
On Monday January 24, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: how can the existing raid setup be moved to the new disks without data loss ? I guess it must be something like this: 1) physically remove first old drive 2) physically add first new drive 3) re-create partitions on new drive 4) run

Re: migrating raid-1 to different drive geometry ?

2005-01-24 Thread Robin Bowes
Neil Brown wrote: If you are using a recent 2.6 kernel and mdadm 1.8.0, you can grow the array with mdadm --grow /dev/mdX --size=max Neil, Is this just for RAID1? OR will it work for RAID5 too? R. -- http://robinbowes.com - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-raid in

Fun with onboard raid in dell poweredge 2650

2005-01-24 Thread Mauricio
We have here a dell poweredge 2650 with the dell perc3/di onboard raid running suse enterprise linux 9. The install process went smoothly but we would like to have a way to check on the raid without having to physically see if a hard drive has crashed and thrown up the error lights.

Re: migrating raid-1 to different drive geometry ?

2005-01-24 Thread Neil Brown
On Tuesday January 25, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Neil Brown wrote: If you are using a recent 2.6 kernel and mdadm 1.8.0, you can grow the array with mdadm --grow /dev/mdX --size=max Neil, Is this just for RAID1? OR will it work for RAID5 too? --grow --size=max should work for