Re: [CentOS] RAID 1 Post Install

2008-12-18 Thread Scott Silva
on 12-17-2008 5:42 PM Hal Martin spake the following: > Just along these lines, would it be possible for me to break RAID 1 on > the two internal drives into RAID 0 and then mirror that new RAID 0 > array onto a SATA drive using RAID 1 without loosing any data? > > I used JFS as the file system fo

Re: [CentOS] RAID 1 Post Install

2008-12-17 Thread Hal Martin
Just along these lines, would it be possible for me to break RAID 1 on the two internal drives into RAID 0 and then mirror that new RAID 0 array onto a SATA drive using RAID 1 without loosing any data? I used JFS as the file system for the RAID 1 array, so that may have to be changed to XFS as you

Re: [CentOS] RAID 1 Post Install

2008-12-02 Thread Kenneth Burgener
Kai Schaetzl wrote: > Does this "Silicon Image SATA controller" not include Hardware RAID by > chance? Silicon Image... good old Fake RAID. To use the Silicon Image Fake RAID you will need to reboot and enter the Silicon Image BIOS, where you can configure the RAID settings there. Once the R

Re: [CentOS] RAID 1 Post Install

2008-12-02 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Tom Brown wrote on Tue, 02 Dec 2008 17:29:06 +: > http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Software-RAID-HOWTO-5.html unfortunately that and the mini-howto are both very much outdated. Many of the stuff it mentions (like mkraid, /etc/raidtab) is not part of the distro anymore. You use mdadm nowadays. Those pa

Re: [CentOS] RAID 1 Post Install

2008-12-02 Thread Tom Brown
> > Is there a GUI like Disk Druid for initializing hard drives in > software RAID 1 *after* the system has been installed? > no need - " 5.6 RAID-1 You have two devices of approximately same size, and you want the two to be mirrors of each other. Eventually you have more devices,

Re: [CentOS] RAID 1 Post Install

2008-12-02 Thread Scott Silva
on 12-2-2008 9:05 AM Hal Martin spake the following: > Hello all, > > I've got CentOS 5.2 installed on an old Pentium III server. The server > is used by a club at my school, and they are rapidly running out of room > on the internal IDE drives that are configured in software RAID 1. > > I have