This is a discussion on Moving raid-0 to raid-1 within the Linux Administration forums, part of the Linux Forums category; So here's the situation I've been given. I've got a server running RH 8.0 with 4 ...
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So here's the situation I've been given. I've got a server running RH
8.0 with 4 scsi drive slots. Two of the drives act as the /boot and /swap space, both running software raid-1. There's a third / partition on these drives running raid-0. The other two drives are striped raid-1 and hold the /home partition. [root@mognet root]# df Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/md2 32715904 1924524 29129468 7% / /dev/md0 101018 25674 70128 27% /boot /dev/md4 70556976 134456 66838424 1% /home Personalities : [raid0] [raid1] read_ahead 1024 sectors md0 : active raid1 sdb1[1] sda1[0] 104320 blocks [2/2] [UU] md1 : active raid1 sdb2[1] sda2[0] 1052160 blocks [2/2] [UU] md2 : active raid0 sdb3[1] sda3[0] 33238272 blocks 64k chunks md4 : active raid1 sdd1[2] sdc1[0] 71681920 blocks [2/2] [UU] What I've been asked is to find a way to change the raid-0 partition into a raid-1 stripe set. The hope is that this is possible without a complete reformat and reinstall of everything, rather some type of backup and recopy. I realize I'm going to need to rebuild this drive set anyway as the space available will drop in half, but I'm looking to know how possible it would be to back this up somewhere and rebuild it later. Is there anyway I can migrate my root system over to the /home drive and use that while I rebuild? Any recommendations on how best to backup the drives somewhere else? I can probably dump the /home drives and put two other drives in those slots to use, so long as RH won't mind running without /home for a bit...I'm not sure that'd work. Thanks for any advice you might have... ....ken |
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