Re: safest way to swap in a new physical disk

2006-11-18 Thread dean gaudet
On Tue, 14 Nov 2006, Will Sheffler wrote: Hi. What is the safest way to switch out a disk in a software raid array created with mdadm? I'm not talking about replacing a failed disk, I want to take a healthy disk in the array and swap it for another physical disk. Specifically, I have an

Re: safest way to swap in a new physical disk

2006-11-15 Thread Forrest Taylor
On Tue, 2006-11-14 at 00:06 -0800, Will Sheffler wrote: Hi. What is the safest way to switch out a disk in a software raid array created with mdadm? I'm not talking about replacing a failed disk, I want to take a healthy disk in the array and swap it for another physical disk.

Re: safest way to swap in a new physical disk

2006-11-15 Thread Forrest Taylor
Oops, I forgot to mention that the RAID should recover before you go on to the next disk. Thus, number five should read: 5. Verify that the disk has rebuilt. mdadm -D /dev/md0 cat /proc/mdstat Once it has completed syncing, then repeat with the second drive. Forrest signature.asc

safest way to swap in a new physical disk

2006-11-14 Thread Will Sheffler
Hi. What is the safest way to switch out a disk in a software raid array created with mdadm? I'm not talking about replacing a failed disk, I want to take a healthy disk in the array and swap it for another physical disk. Specifically, I have an array made up of 10 250gb software-raid