Re: [CentOS] Transition to CentOS - RAID HELP!

On 01/17/2012 01:30 PM, Ashley M. Kirchner wrote:

  I've inherited an old RH7 system that I'd like to upgrade to

CentOS6.1 by means of wiping it clean and doing a fresh install. However, the system has a software raid setup that I wish to keep untouched as it has data on that I must keep.

If you boot the CentOS installer, it should detect any existing RAID and LVM volumes. You'll be able to select individual filesystems to mount in the new system, and optionally format them. Assuming that your data is on a volume of its own, you can select the "system" filesystems and format only those.

You shouldn't have to manually recreate anything.