on 1/4/2008 5:11 PM Dan Carl spake the following: > > -----Original Message----- > From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org]On > Behalf Of Les Mikesell > Sent: Friday, January 04, 2008 6:29 PM > To: CentOS mailing list > Subject: Re: [CentOS] Migrating software raid from SUSE 9.0 to Centos 5 > > > Dan Carl wrote: >> I forgot to add the file system is riserfs. >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org]On >> Behalf Of Dan Carl >> Sent: Friday, January 04, 2008 5:43 PM >> To: centos at centos.org >> Subject: [CentOS] Migrating software raid from SUSE 9.0 to Centos 5 >> >> >> I have a SUSE 9.0 box with a software raid. >> It consists of 6 IDE drives and three different controllers >> The OS is on a separate drive. >> What I want to do is put a new boot drive in load Centos on it. >> Then I want to be able to mount the raid without loosing any of the data > on >> it. >> What information do I need from the SUSE OS (raid info etc...) to tell >> Centos how to recognize it? >> The data is backup on DVD's but it would be a real pain to reload it.(its >> around a terabyte of data) >> So I'm writing here for some advice. >> I've setup many raids in the past but only fresh installs. >> Thanks > > After you do your base Centos install and 'yum update', do: > yum --enablerepo=centosplus update kernel > yum --enablerepo=centosplus install reiserfs-utils > > Then reboot, and you should be able to mount the raid and add it to > /etc/fstab. > > Ok but how does Centos recognise the ARRAY? > Is the Array's configuration stored some where? > SUSE uses raidtab. > The only raid type conf file on my other Centos boxes is /etc/mdadm.conf > > So you mean to tell me I just have to make sure reiserfs is installed, then > just mount like this in fstab > /dev/md0 /home/tera reiserfs defaults 1 > 2 > #mount -a > and bang everything in done? > Something tells me it can't be that easy. As long as the partitions were created as raid autostart (type 0xFD) they should have all the info needed to start. If you aren't sure, why not DL the CentOS live CD and see if you can start the array from it? If the live CD can see it, then an installed version should. -- MailScanner is like deodorant... You hope everybody uses it, and you notice quickly if they don't!!!!