Hi,
I have a failing IDE disk which is running my 7.0-p1 server. I've been
investigating the possible solutions and I've decided to go with two
new IDE disks and gmirror. However, I'm not too familiar with disk
internals, I know how to install the system and somehow understand the
concept of slices and partitions, but that's about it.
I found some examples on how to install the gmirror on a running
system, but they all have in common that they just add new spare disk
to the system and turn on the mirroring to it, but I need to replace
the current disk which is not the same size as the new ones.
Any suggestions how one would do such an operation? Should I just re-
install the server to a new disk, turn on the mirroring and then
restore the configuration and files from the failing disk? Or is it
easier to add the disks to the running system, turn on mirroring and
then somehow dump the current disk to the mirror and then re-configure
it to boot from the gmirror and remove the failing disk?
Current df output:
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on
/dev/ad0s1a 507630 159262 307758 34% /
devfs 1 1 0 100% /dev
/dev/ad0s1e 507630 56 466964 0% /tmp
/dev/ad0s1f 33573476 6044408 24843190 20% /usr
/dev/ad0s1d 1762414 381632 1239790 24% /var
devfs 1 1 0 100% /var/named/dev
Thanks in advance,
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Henry Karpatskij
http://ripe.net/fcgi-bin/whois?searchtext=HK1203-RIPE
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