On Wed, Aug 08, 2001 at 05:14:21PM -0700, Alvin Oga wrote: > > hi ya robert > > > after you install the new disks... let it do its magic to resync > itself.... ( dont write any new info to it for a while ) > > watch the counter/timer to see when its done resyncing back to its > happy self... >
No need to wait... > cat /proc/mdstat > - should tell you how long it has before finished sync'ing > > - if your master died... you should wait... > > - if your slave(mirror) died... you should be able to continue > but risky ... donno what happens when it has too much stuff to > sync up > > since oyu have to install the new hard disk,,, > - i assume yu already shut down.... and installed the new disk and > formated it etc... and power up > > - BEFORE installing the replacement disk... i'd make sure it still > boots in degraded mode before you install the new disk > - make sure you can boot...first... > - make a boot floppy if you have to...and test the boot floppy > > - once the new disk is installed, just keep going... no need to shutdown > again.. until AFTER it finished resyncing... > No need to shutdown at all, unless there are other reasons...
