On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 12:14:58PM BST, Bartek W. aka Mastier wrote: > Hi, > > I got two drives in RAID1 matrix, each one got 2 partitions, first > boot also in raid, containg grub and such
RAID or RAID array, not matrix. > My question is, what if I connect the new drive and it will appear > as /dev/sda, and the already working one will be /dev/sdb. Will it > overwrite it ? http://zeldor.biz/2011/09/raid1-replace-broken-hdd/ http://www.howtoforge.com/replacing_hard_disks_in_a_raid1_array http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/238 http://wiki.yobi.be/wiki/Debian_Soft_Raid > The second question, Should I first create partitions partions on > this new drive ? What about GRUB ? I was struggling last time to > install it on both drives in MBR (do you have any proper procedure, > because GRUB2 it can boot from dmraid, but cannot install on > /dev/md0 for instance). dmraid and mdraid are not the same thing. http://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/SataRaid http://www.howtoforge.com/software-raid1-grub-boot-debian-etch http://wiki.clug.org.za/wiki/RAID-1_in_a_hurry_with_grub_and_mdadm That's after a couple of minutes of using google. You could've found all of the bove yourself. And above all: % man mdadm Regards, -- Raf -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
