Reinstall OS Without Disturbing Software Raid Array

Reinstall OS Without Disturbing Software Raid Array

[Noah Swint]

Can I reinstall fedora 14 without destroying the software raid array? 

Re: Reinstall OS Without Disturbing Software Raid Array

[Mathias Burén]

On 9 July 2011 18:53, Noah Swint <noah.swint@gmail.com> wrote:
> Can I reinstall fedora 14 without destroying the software raid array?
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Ask Fedora.

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Re: Reinstall OS Without Disturbing Software Raid Array

[Tyler J. Wagner]

On Sat, 2011-07-09 at 13:53 -0400, Noah Swint wrote:
> Can I reinstall fedora 14 without destroying the software raid array? 

Any other Linux with md raid support will be able to read the array. The
exception would be if you are using a 1.x metadata format array, and
tried to move it to a very old kernel that doesn't support it. A newer
OS will always be fine.

I cannot promise the Fedora installer won't delete the contents of the
array. I'm not familiar with it.

Regards,
Tyler

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Re: Reinstall OS Without Disturbing Software Raid Array

[Maurice Hilarius]

On 7/9/2011 11:53 AM, Noah Swint wrote:
> Can I reinstall fedora 14 without destroying the software raid array?
Yes.

In the Fedora installer, when you get to the disk partitioning options 
selection,
choose "Custom" which is, I believe the last option on the pull down menu.

That assumes, of course, that you are using the GUI installer version.
If you are installing in text mode, the choice is the same, however the 
menu is different.

One may if you like, also  selectively save existing partitions and 
their data, but choosing
whether or not you want them to be formatted.

Often one may want to preserve /home, assuming that it is a separate 
partition or md device.




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Re: Reinstall OS Without Disturbing Software Raid Array

[Simon Mcnair]

Best advice would be to ensure you have a back up before trying it ;-)

As an aside my raid array is mountable using even a live cd once mdadm
and lvm2 packages have been installed.



On 9 July 2011 22:09, Maurice Hilarius <maurice@harddata.com> wrote:
> On 7/9/2011 11:53 AM, Noah Swint wrote:
>>
>> Can I reinstall fedora 14 without destroying the software raid array?
>
> Yes.
>
> In the Fedora installer, when you get to the disk partitioning options
> selection,
> choose "Custom" which is, I believe the last option on the pull down menu.
>
> That assumes, of course, that you are using the GUI installer version.
> If you are installing in text mode, the choice is the same, however the menu
> is different.
>
> One may if you like, also  selectively save existing partitions and their
> data, but choosing
> whether or not you want them to be formatted.
>
> Often one may want to preserve /home, assuming that it is a separate
> partition or md device.
>
>
>
>
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> Maurice Hilarius
> eMail: /mhilarius@gmail.com/
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