Hey! I have big problem with my centos 5.1. I have two hard discs 500gig and 40gig and those are in RAID0. I would like to remowe the small 40gig hd and put new 500gig hd and i don't wan't raid0 anymore.
How can i copy data from 40gig hd to 500gig hd and switch 40gig hd to new 500gig hd?
Another question: Can i just copy all my files to windows laptop and if i wan't "backup" files?
Please answer my talent in linux isn't very good.
jussi@mail.com wrote on 09/24/2009 07:01 AM:
Hey! I have big problem with my centos 5.1. I have two hard discs 500gig and 40gig and those are in RAID0. I would like to remowe the small 40gig hd and put new 500gig hd and i don't wan't raid0 anymore.
That's quite an odd asymmetric RAID setup if you really mean both drives are in the RAID0.
How can i copy data from 40gig hd to 500gig hd and switch 40gig hd to new 500gig hd?
Any way to put in the new drive without disturbing the RAID, copy data to it, then remove the RAID setup? If you try to remove a disk from RAID0 you will lose it all - no redundancy in RAID0.
Another question: Can i just copy all my files to windows laptop and if i wan't "backup" files?
That's possible, but you may have problems with file ownership and permissions if you just copy files. I'd use a tar or cpio archive on the Windows storage. Could then be restored to Linux, either as an additional backup, or as an alternative to having all 3 drives on-line as outlined above.
Phil
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