[CentOS] Software Raid Recovery

Fri Feb 20 17:11:39 UTC 2009
Stephen Leonard Character <Stephen.Character at Alorica.net>

On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 3:15 PM, Stephen Leonard Character
<Stephen.Character at alorica.net> wrote:
> I have a server set up with 4hdd using software raid. I have /boot on
a
> raid1 on md0 , / on raid5 on md1, and swap on raid0 on md2. If one of
my
> drives die, how to I recover?

>First, put the swap also on RAID1, you don't want part of your memory
>to become unavailable is a drive dies. Using RAID has no use then.

>If a drive dies nothing will happen, your system will continue to keep
>running (if you put your swap on raid1 that is). But make sure you
>configure mdadm to send you a mail when that happens, so you know a
>drive is gone.

>For recovery, just replace the disk, repartition it and re-add the
>partitions to the raid arrays and your are done. The disks will resync
>and then everything is back to how it was.

>Regards,
>Tim

Thanks for the reply's, I'm assuming to do the repartitioning with fdisk
or gparted to repartition, what tools do I use to manage the software
raid? I.e. how do I go about changing the swap partition to raid1 and
re-add the partitions to the array? This system is for me to practice on
for my RHCT/E exams(too broke to pay for training) so I'm planning on
breaking one of the drives(just remove it) and add a new one for
practice.

Thanks in advance,
Stephen