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[Johnny Stork]

I am about to begin a long needed rebuild of some servers and will be moving some drives around. One machine runs software RAID-1 on RH 7.3 with two identical 20gb drives. 3 partitions mirrored, /boot, / and swap. I would like to avoid having to take down all three servers for the ???? days it will take to rebuild them so can start the process if I can "steal" one of the mirrored drives on this machine. Is it possible to simply remove the second, mirrored drive and make some changes somewhere, fstab? and keep the system up while I use the removed drive? Here are the contents of my raidtab and fstab if that helps. raidtab contents: raiddev /dev/md0 raid-level 1 nr-raid-disks 2 chunk-size 64k persistent-superblock 1 nr-spare-disks 0 device /dev/hda2 raid-disk 0 device /dev/hdc2 raid-disk 1 raiddev /dev/md1 raid-level 1 nr-raid-disks 2 chunk-size 64k persistent-superblock 1 nr-spare-disks 0 device /dev/hda1 raid-disk 0 device /dev/hdc1 raid-disk 1 raiddev /dev/md2 raid-level 1 nr-raid-disks 2 chunk-size 64k persistent-superblock 1 nr-spare-disks 0 device /dev/hda3 raid-disk 0 device /dev/hdc3 raid-disk 1 fstab contents: LABEL=/ / ext3 defaults 1 1 LABEL=/boot /boot ext3 defaults 1 2 none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 /dev/md2 swap swap defaults 0 0 /dev/fd0 /mnt/Floppy auto noauto,owner,kudzu 0 0 /dev/cdrom /mnt/CD-Rom iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0 ________________________________________ Johnny Stork Calgary, AB Canada Open Solutions Open Source & Linux Solutions for Business http://www.open-solutions.ca http://www.opensourceinfo.net http://www.penguinportal.net Academic Computers http://www.academic-computers.com