Re: Replacing both disks in RAID1

2005-01-14 Thread Derek
Toomas Aas wrote: 1. Attach one of the new drives to free ICH4 IDE port on motherboard, partition it and transfer the data using dump/tar. At this stage, I would recommend doing this in single user mode, to keep filesystem modifications during the procedure down. I typically use dump for all

Re: Replacing both disks in RAID1

2005-01-14 Thread Toomas Aas
Derek wrote: Toomas Aas wrote: 1. Attach one of the new drives to free ICH4 IDE port on motherboard, partition it and transfer the data using dump/tar. At this stage, I would recommend doing this in single user mode, to keep filesystem modifications during the procedure down. Yes, that was my

Re: Replacing both disks in RAID1

2005-01-14 Thread Christian Hiris
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 14 January 2005 18:47, Toomas Aas wrote: Derek wrote: But if it is necessary, it should be possible to bring the machine up to single user mode and modify the fstab there, right? Given, of course, that the root partition is left on

Re: Replacing both disks in RAID1

2005-01-14 Thread Derek
Toomas Aas wrote: But if it is necessary, it should be possible to bring the machine up to single user mode and modify the fstab there, right? Given, of course, that the root partition is left on ar0s1a. Yes, that makes fine sense. Although if you want to feel _really_ good about it, have a live

Re: Replacing both disks in RAID1

2005-01-13 Thread Toomas Aas
Toomas Aas wrote: I have a small server running FreeBSD 4.10, 2 x 80 GB drives mirrored on Promise TX2 integrated RAID1 controller. I'd like to replace the 80 GB drives with 200 GB drives. Here's my current plan: 1. Attach one of the new drives to free ICH4 IDE port on motherboard, partition