Hi All,
If I put a 1TB HD in my server (because they are on sale this week), can I later Mirror to a second 1TB drive without destroying the data on the first?
On Windows and OS X, I know I can't do this...
Thoughts?
-ML
ML wrote:
Hi All,
If I put a 1TB HD in my server (because they are on sale this week), can I later Mirror to a second 1TB drive without destroying the data on the first?
On Windows and OS X, I know I can't do this...
Thoughts?
-ML _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Certainly I've used this http://linux-raid.osdl.org/index.php/Linux_Raid successfully a number of times. HTH Rob
ML wrote:
Hi All,
If I put a 1TB HD in my server (because they are on sale this week), can I later Mirror to a second 1TB drive without destroying the data on the first?
On Windows and OS X, I know I can't do this...
Thoughts?
-ML
Step by step instructions at http://www.howtoforge.com/software-raid1-grub-boot-fedora-8
BUT be sure you have an up-to-date backup in case it clabbers.
ML wrote:
If I put a 1TB HD in my server (because they are on sale this week), can I later Mirror to a second 1TB drive without destroying the data on the first?
On Windows and OS X, I know I can't do this...
Thoughts?
Partition the disk into one partition of type 'FD' (raid autodetect) Use mdadm to create a 2 device RAID1 but specify one device as "missing" and mount the md device instead of the disk partition. Then when/if you get a matching drive, create the matching partition and add it to the raid with 'mdadm --add'. Personally, I think this should be the default mechanism when installing but you can't do it at all there.
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