On 9 January 2011 15:42, Kyle <k...@attitia.com> wrote: > My goal is to replace ALL the current 500GB disks with all new 1TB disks > into a new RAID 1 array and yet maintain the entire machine's installation > and configuration. > > I.e. If it were as simple as; > > 1. as suggested by Menno - install disks separately; create new RAID 1 with > appropriate /boot & / > 2. Copy entire contents of old RAID1 /boot and / to new RAID > 3. remove old RAID, replace old for new. > 4. Perhaps some bios fiddling and presto new disks. > > that would be nice. > > But somewhere in there I've got to transfer the system onto the new RAID. > Just haven't figured out how yet. Plus any other gotchas I don't yet know > about. >
I posted this a long time ago to slug: (Tried to find a copy on the slug website but apparently slug no longer has its own online archives?) http://www.mail-archive.com/slug@slug.org.au/msg41286.html I haven't used this process for a very long time though, so the details may have changed. One of the trickier hacks was to use pivot_root to remount the root filesystem onto the new raid device once the data was copied across. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
