Have a CentOS 4.x 32 bit server running on a single 500M SATA drive. What is easiest way to convert too RAID 1 on it? Anyone have a link? Would be open to hardware or software just do not want to reinstall the entire mess.
On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 11:59, Matt lm7812@gmail.com wrote:
Have a CentOS 4.x 32 bit server running on a single 500M SATA drive. What is easiest way to convert too RAID 1 on it? Anyone have a link? Would be open to hardware or software just do not want to reinstall the entire mess. _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Why would you mirror a single disk? You need to get another 500Gb hard drive to mirror with.
Once you get the second drive, you need to make sure LVM is installed. I think you then need to add your partitions as physical drives and partition the new drive to match your existing one. Add the new drive partitions as physical drives and pair them up.
How difficult it is depends on your current set up.
John
On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 12:17 PM, John Kennedy skebi69@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 11:59, Matt lm7812@gmail.com wrote:
Have a CentOS 4.x 32 bit server running on a single 500M SATA drive. What is easiest way to convert too RAID 1 on it? Anyone have a link? Would be open to hardware or software just do not want to reinstall the entire mess.
Why would you mirror a single disk? You need to get another 500Gb hard drive to mirror with.
+1
Once you get the second drive, you need to make sure LVM is installed.
Not really. You can choose not to use LVM.
I think you then need to add your partitions as physical drives and partition the new drive to match your existing one.
I don't understand the above. Basically both disks have to be partitioned in the same way and, assuming that sda is the current disk and sdb is the new disk, you can do so with "sfdisk -d /dev/sda | sfdisk /dev/sdb".
On Tuesday 30 November 2010 11:59, Matt wrote:
Have a CentOS 4.x 32 bit server running on a single 500M SATA drive. What is easiest way to convert too RAID 1 on it? Anyone have a link? Would be open to hardware or software just do not want to reinstall the entire mess.
You are aware that you are going to need 2 partitions of equal size for the mirror?
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