----- Original Message ----- | On 9/10/2013 10:23 AM, Joseph Spenner wrote: | > But is there a way to stage the new system so all I need to do is | > move the RAID from the old system to the new system? | > Or do I need to do anything at all? | > I'm not sure if the existing system has some special packages which | > make it able to use those large partitions. It doesn't appear to | > have 'parted' installed. | | what kind of raid is this? hardware, mdraid, what? if hardware | raid, then what sort of hardware raid controller, and does that | controller support moving volumes between systems? | | are both systems totally identical hardware? in that case, I'd simply | move ALL the disks, including the system volume.
I agree here. Looking at the future, consider e2label to assign or change a label on an ext2/3/4 file system or xfs_admin -L <label> /dev/sdc1 for XFS and then move to using file system labels instead. It will avoid the device enumeration problems discussed earlier. -- James A. Peltier Manager, IT Services - Research Computing Group Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus Phone : 778-782-6573 Fax : 778-782-3045 E-Mail : jpelt...@sfu.ca Website : http://www.sfu.ca/itservices “A successful person is one who can lay a solid foundation from the bricks others have thrown at them.” -David Brinkley via Luke Shaw _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
