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

Reuniting disks in a raid1 array

2016-08-29 Thread Frédéric Marchal
Hello, 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 on the old computer. Now, it's time for the old computer to retire and