From: Max Waterman <davidmaxwaterman+gmane@fastmail.co.uk>
To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: moving failing system disk to 2xnew RAID1
Date: Sun, 25 Dec 2005 10:16:03 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <dokvja$l78$1@sea.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200512241924.jBOJOCTQ002276@cichlid.com>
Andrew Burgess wrote:
>>> What would the procedure be for moving the data off my (single) Maxtor onto a
>>> RAID1 of 2 WD800JBs?
>
>> I wonder if I should just use the fedora installation disk to create a
>> RAID1 from the two WD disks and install it on there, then somehow copy
>> over the data from the Maxtor (perhaps while booted from a Live Linux CD)?
>
> Create the raid1 and mkfs. Then
> cp -aux / /raid
> then boot single user and do it again to get the few files that have changed
> (logs etc)
>
> then adjust your boot program to boot from the raid
>
OK, sounds straight forward, but what about the /boot and swap partitions?
Max.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-12-25 2:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-12-24 19:24 moving failing system disk to 2xnew RAID1 Andrew Burgess
2005-12-25 2:16 ` Max Waterman [this message]
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2005-12-24 8:53 Henrik
2005-12-24 9:51 ` Max Waterman
2005-12-14 7:35 Max Waterman
2005-12-24 1:27 ` Max Waterman
2005-12-24 1:39 ` Andy Smith
2005-12-24 8:02 ` Max Waterman
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