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From: Mads Peter Bach <mpb@hum.auc.dk>
To: linux-raid <linux-raid@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: RAID-5 missing one disk.
Date: Sun, 18 May 2003 11:27:49 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3EC75215.9040104@hum.auc.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3EC74F2C.17E260E8@vitoni.de>

Victor wrote:
> Ok, so is it possible to build such an array?

Yes.

> I have 3 empty disks and 1 full of data. I would like to use the 3 disks to build the array, copy the
> data from the full one into the array and then add the now empty disk. I read something of "degraded"
> arrays, but I haven't seen a self-explanatory howto about this anywhere.

Install mdadm (http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~neilb/source/mdadm/) and read the 
mdadm manpage (search for 'To create a "degraded" array').

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      reply	other threads:[~2003-05-18  9:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-05-17 21:40 RAID-5 missing one disk Victor
2003-05-18  4:20 ` Mads Peter Bach
2003-05-18  9:15   ` Victor
2003-05-18  9:27     ` Mads Peter Bach [this message]

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