Re: [gentoo-user] Migrating RAID: Degraded RAID5 from RAID1?

2009-11-29 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Freitag 27 November 2009, Dan Cowsill wrote: > Hello list, > > Currently I have two terabyte hard disks in a RAID1 configuration > using software RAID. What I'd like to do is add a third disk and > arrive at the end with a RAID5 array. The problem is I have limited > disk space and not enough

Re: [gentoo-user] Migrating RAID: Degraded RAID5 from RAID1?

2009-11-29 Thread Dan Cowsill
On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 2:30 AM, andrey larin wrote: > let suppose > sda and sdb is raid 1 md1 > and new sdc > remove sdb from raid > mdadm /dev/md1 -f /dev/sdb > mdadm /dev/md1 -r /dev/sdb > then create degraded raid 5 > don't forget md1 is still running > mdadm --create /dev/md2 --level 5 -n 3 /

Re: [gentoo-user] Migrating RAID: Degraded RAID5 from RAID1?

2009-11-27 Thread andrey larin
let suppose sda and sdb is raid 1 md1 and new sdc remove sdb from raid mdadm /dev/md1 -f /dev/sdb mdadm /dev/md1 -r /dev/sdb then create degraded raid 5 don't forget md1 is still running mdadm --create /dev/md2 --level 5 -n 3 /dev/sdb /dev/sdc missing then copy all data from md1 to md2 fix /etc/fs

[gentoo-user] Migrating RAID: Degraded RAID5 from RAID1?

2009-11-27 Thread Dan Cowsill
Hello list, Currently I have two terabyte hard disks in a RAID1 configuration using software RAID. What I'd like to do is add a third disk and arrive at the end with a RAID5 array. The problem is I have limited disk space and not enough room to back up all of the data on the array in its current