On 1/17/2012 9:16 PM, Raymond Lillard wrote:
Just make sure you have a verified backup before you do anything !!
If it's not backed up data, it's not important data.
This particular system is actually a mirror of a production server, a CentOS 5.7 (Final), which is also configured the same exact way as far as the raid goes. The data is already on a different machine. The one I'm going to be working on is the backup to the main server. So, even if I don't create a backup, it won't be a total loss as I just have to mirror it from the main system again. However, that being said, I do plan on backing it up anyway, just to cover my ass. In a moment of stupidity, I could very easy reverse the rsync command and end up deleting everything from the main server instead of mirroring it. :)
I don't remember what version of the ext filesystem was current during the RH7 days, but I would seriously consider dumping the raid and reloading in onto a newly formatted ext4 filesystem.
Agreed, but I'm also considering redoing the raid. I still can't come up with a good reason why it was created the way it was. I'm sure they had their reasons at the time.