From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mads Peter Bach Subject: Re: RAID-5 missing one disk. Date: Sun, 18 May 2003 11:27:49 +0200 Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <3EC75215.9040104@hum.auc.dk> References: <3EC6AC4D.EDBE151E@vitoni.de> <3EC70A1C.4030401@hum.auc.dk> <3EC74F2C.17E260E8@vitoni.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Return-path: In-Reply-To: <3EC74F2C.17E260E8@vitoni.de> To: linux-raid List-Id: linux-raid.ids 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 di= sks to build the array, copy the > data from the full one into the array and then add the now empty disk= =2E I read something of "degraded" > arrays, but I haven't seen a self-explanatory howto about this anywhe= re. Install mdadm (http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~neilb/source/mdadm/) and rea= d the=20 mdadm manpage (search for 'To create a "degraded" array'). --=20 Mads Peter Bach Systemadministrator, Det Humanistiske Fakultet, Aalborg Universitet Kroghstr=E6de 3 - 5.111, DK-9220 Aalborg =D8st - (+45) 96358062 # whois MPB1-DK@whois.dk-hostmaster.dk - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" i= n the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html