Re: Moving RAID1 disks between systems

[Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk <roy@karlsbakk.net>]

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> On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 2:30 PM, Drew <drew.kay@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Jim,
> >
> > You should have no troubles reassembling the array on a new machine.
> > From what I understand, md raid doesn't depend on device names for
> > assembling arrays, it has some internal UUID's to distinguish which
> > array a member disk belongs to.
> >
> > mdadm --assemble --scan is pretty much all you need (and won't break
> > anything in the process)
> >
> >
> Is there a way to rename md devices? It would be useful in general and
> maybe necessary if assembling the arrays from the other system causes
> md device name collisions

if you mean device name, it's configured in /etc/mdadm/mdadm.conf or similar (varies a bit between distros). that should hold the device name and its UUID

Vennlige hilsener / Best regards

roy
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