Re: (clug-talk) Removing RAID 1??

[HJ Hornbeck]

In theory, all you have to do is yank the drive. I was under the impression that IDE drives aren't hot-swappable though, so I'm a bit curious to know how it turned out.

HJ Hornbeck

Johnny Stork wrote:

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