Re: Raid HD upgrade

2002-04-08 Thread Bill Crawford
On Mon, 8 Apr 2002, Mike Watson wrote: > Use "LABELS" for each partition. This makes moving drives around easier. Until you have several partitions with the same labels and mount the "wrongs" ones :o) That is one of the advantages of labelling, though, yes. They are not a panacaea though.

Re: Raid HD upgrade

2002-04-08 Thread Mike Watson
Use "LABELS" for each partition. This makes moving drives around easier. Mike W Bill Crawford wrote: > > On Sun, 7 Apr 2002, Devon Harding - GTHLA wrote: > > > But once I remove the old drives and put the new ones on the same controller > > wont the device names change? > > Yes. > > How to

RE: Raid HD upgrade

2002-04-07 Thread Bill Crawford
On Sun, 7 Apr 2002, Devon Harding - GTHLA wrote: > But once I remove the old drives and put the new ones on the same controller > wont the device names change? Yes. How to deal with this is left as an exercise for the reader. I'd recommend playing a few games of Sokoban before trying to shu

RE: Raid HD upgrade

2002-04-07 Thread Devon Harding - GTHLA
Title: RE: Raid HD upgrade But once I remove the old drives and put the new ones on the same controller wont the device names change? -Original Message- From: Cameron Simpson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, April 05, 2002 8:52 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Raid HD

Re: Raid HD upgrade

2002-04-05 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 10:40 05 Apr 2002, Devon Harding - GTHLA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | How do I upgrade two 9GB HD running software raid1 (mirroring) to two 20GB HD | in RedHat 7.2 If it were me and I had enough busses I'd just set up the two new drives' RAIDness and then mount them and copy the data over. --