Re: [gentoo-user] Adding a disk to a mirror

2003-08-31 Thread Alan
> /etc/raidtab. Note that I only know this in theory, not practice, so back > up your data first. It's very easy to destroy all your data with a little > mistake with raid. Actually the one thing that I found when I started playing with RAID a while back was how well the tools helped you *not* t

Re: [gentoo-user] Adding a disk to a mirror

2003-08-31 Thread Jason Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > 'raidhotadd' is the command you're looking for. Then add the device to That was my first attempt, but since the raid was defined with just 1 device, the hotadd just added the 2nd device as a un-sync'd spare. - -Jason -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- V

Re: [gentoo-user] Adding a disk to a mirror

2003-08-31 Thread Jason Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Replying 'for the record', but what I did is to reboot with my install disk (as I had /boot and / on the ersatz-raid), then create a raidtab that had the new devices listed under 'failed-disk'. I then ran mkraid -f on the raid devices, and it successfu

Re: [gentoo-user] Adding a disk to a mirror

2003-08-31 Thread Marshal Newrock
On Sat, 30 Aug 2003, Jason Martin wrote: > Hello, I built a system with the intention of mirroring all of the drives. > To that end I built on a md 0,1,2 device, but I defined it to have just > one drive. Now its time for me to add the mirror, but I can't figure out > hot to add a disk w/o reinst

[gentoo-user] Adding a disk to a mirror

2003-08-30 Thread Jason Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, I built a system with the intention of mirroring all of the drives. To that end I built on a md 0,1,2 device, but I defined it to have just one drive. Now its time for me to add the mirror, but I can't figure out hot to add a disk w/o reinstall