Re: Reuniting disks in a raid1 array

2016-08-30 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 30/08/2016 à 12:14, Mirko Parthey a écrit : On Tue, Aug 30, 2016 at 07:33:02AM +0200, Frédéric Marchal wrote: Do I have to wipe sdb before adding it to the new computer? If so, how do I make sure raid data is gone from every one of the three partitions? The wipefs tool can remove RAID

Re: Reuniting disks in a raid1 array

2016-08-30 Thread Mirko Parthey
On Tue, Aug 30, 2016 at 07:33:02AM +0200, Frédéric Marchal wrote: > I had two disks in a mdadm software raid1 on an old computer. > > I moved sda to a new computer. It ran there in a degraded raid1 for months. > > The second disk, sdb, kept running as the lone survivor of the original raid1 >

Re: Reuniting disks in a raid1 array

2016-08-30 Thread Frédéric Marchal
On Tuesday 30 August 2016 11:32:55 Lars Noodén wrote: > On 08/30/2016 08:33 AM, Frédéric Marchal wrote: > >... > > > > Now, it's time for the old computer to retire and sdb to join its partner > > in the new raid1 on the new computer. > > > > How can I do this safely? > > Here is what I did when

Re: Reuniting disks in a raid1 array

2016-08-30 Thread Lars Noodén
> On 08/30/2016 08:33 AM, Frédéric Marchal wrote: >> How can I do this safely? PS. It goes without saying, and thus I forgot to say it, but start this by making a fresh backup of your new system. Preferably you have multiple, older backups around, too, and not just one. Sorry if that's obvious

Re: Reuniting disks in a raid1 array

2016-08-30 Thread Lars Noodén
On 08/30/2016 08:33 AM, Frédéric Marchal wrote: >... > Now, it's time for the old computer to retire and sdb to join its partner in > the new raid1 on the new computer. > > How can I do this safely? Here is what I did when I restored a drive to a RAID 1 array. I'm not an expert, so you'll want