Re: [CentOS] Migrating to RAID

2009-12-10 Thread Matt
I have CentOS 4.x installed on a single 500GB SATA drive.  Drive is about 10 percent used.  I would like to migrate to software RAID 5 without reinstalling the OS.  Was thinking 3 500GB drives.  Is that possible or must I reinstall? >>> Moving to RAID-1 is going to be fairly eas

Re: [CentOS] Migrating to RAID

2009-12-10 Thread Les Mikesell
Matt wrote: >>> I have CentOS 4.x installed on a single 500GB SATA drive. Drive is >>> about 10 percent used. I would like to migrate to software RAID 5 >>> without reinstalling the OS. Was thinking 3 500GB drives. Is that >>> possible or must I reinstall? >> Moving to RAID-1 is going to be fai

Re: [CentOS] Migrating to RAID

2009-12-10 Thread Matt
>> I have CentOS 4.x installed on a single 500GB SATA drive.  Drive is >> about 10 percent used.  I would like to migrate to software RAID 5 >> without reinstalling the OS.  Was thinking 3 500GB drives.  Is that >> possible or must I reinstall? > > Moving to RAID-1 is going to be fairly easy.  Movi

Re: [CentOS] Migrating to RAID

2009-12-10 Thread Thomas Harold
On 12/10/2009 10:39 AM, Matt wrote: > I have CentOS 4.x installed on a single 500GB SATA drive. Drive is > about 10 percent used. I would like to migrate to software RAID 5 > without reinstalling the OS. Was thinking 3 500GB drives. Is that > possible or must I reinstall? Moving to RAID-1 is g

Re: [CentOS] Migrating to RAID

2009-12-10 Thread nate
Alan McKay wrote: > Google "say no to RAID 5" > > http://baarf.com/ > > http://www.tomshardware.com/news/RAID-5-Doomed-2009,6525.html > Say goodbye to whole-disk based RAID solutions and hello to next generation sub-disk RAID solutions, dramatically extending the real world lifetime of RAID 5(and

Re: [CentOS] Migrating to RAID

2009-12-10 Thread Alan Hodgson
On Thursday 10 December 2009, Matt wrote: > I have CentOS 4.x installed on a single 500GB SATA drive. Drive is > about 10 percent used. I would like to migrate to software RAID 5 > without reinstalling the OS. Was thinking 3 500GB drives. Is that > possible or must I reinstall? > In theory yo

Re: [CentOS] Migrating to RAID

2009-12-10 Thread Alan McKay
Google "say no to RAID 5" http://baarf.com/ http://www.tomshardware.com/news/RAID-5-Doomed-2009,6525.html -- “Don't eat anything you've ever seen advertised on TV” - Michael Pollan, author of "In Defense of Food" ___ CentOS mailing list C

Re: [CentOS] Migrating to RAID

2009-12-10 Thread Robert Heller
At Thu, 10 Dec 2009 09:39:25 -0600 CentOS mailing list wrote: > > I have CentOS 4.x installed on a single 500GB SATA drive. Drive is > about 10 percent used. I would like to migrate to software RAID 5 > without reinstalling the OS. Was thinking 3 500GB drives. Is that > possible or must I r

Re: [CentOS] Migrating to RAID

2009-12-10 Thread James Bensley
You will have to reinstall because if you add two more 500GB drives to make your set up into a three drive horse, you then need to format each drive and synchronise them together creating the new logical RAID volume so no data can be kept on said disks prior to the creation of the RAID. HTH! --

[CentOS] Migrating to RAID

2009-12-10 Thread Matt
I have CentOS 4.x installed on a single 500GB SATA drive. Drive is about 10 percent used. I would like to migrate to software RAID 5 without reinstalling the OS. Was thinking 3 500GB drives. Is that possible or must I reinstall? Matt ___ CentOS maili