Hi,
I don't know enough about your hardware but a sort of longer way to do
this without worrying about expanding arrays and crossing your fingers is...
replace the 500GB disks with the 1TB disks one by one so that the raid
array has time to rebuild on each disk.
then you end up with your raid volume on the new 1TB disks and you have
a bunch of 500GB disks free.
create a new raid set with the 500GB disks and copy everything from the
1TB raid to the 500GB disks.
delete the raid set on the 1TB disks.
create a raid set on the 1TB disks using all the space now available.
copy the data from the 500GB raid set to the 1TB disks
delete the 500 GB raid set.
A bit longer and involved however you can use your data while rebuilding
the raid set
Thanks,
Ben Donohue
On 10/01/2011 9:21 AM, Kyle wrote:
Hi Folks,
it appears one of the disks in my s'ware RAID is failing. So I've come
to SLUG for some consensus and confirmation.
1. How do I go about rebuilding the RAID with ALL brand new disks
(obviously no longer the same disks, but now newer spec larger disks)
such that I don't lose not only the data but don't have to rebuild the
whole machine again?
2. I'm better sticking with linux s'ware RAID rather than setting up a
m'board BIOS supported RAID aren't I?
3. It's been a while since I delved into h'ware etc. So SATA II disks
will simply plug into, and function correctly, SATA plugs, yes or no?
Or are we now at a stage where I also have to worry about whether or
not the m'board will actually support the disks I want to put in?
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