Re: Moving mdadm raid volume to new OS install

2013-02-07 Thread Sam Martin
brilliant, not rebuild though, you mean remount / assemble? On 7 February 2013 23:50, Shane Johnson wrote: > On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 4:46 PM, Sam Martin wrote: > >> do you know whether i could move a raid1 vol from 32bit dist to 64bit >> dist? >> >> >> &

Re: Moving mdadm raid volume to new OS install

2013-02-07 Thread Sam Martin
could it be used without mdadm? i think the suggestion was that if it went wrong the disk could still be used as the "raid" stuff was on the end of the disk? that right? On 7 February 2013 22:33, Shane Johnson wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 2:42 PM, Sam Martin wrote

Re: Moving mdadm raid volume to new OS install

2013-02-07 Thread Sam Martin
10:01 PM UTC, Pascal Hambourg wrote: > Sam Martin a ï¿œcrit : > > > Thanks for reply Pascal. > > > > Please don't top-post. > > > > > How would I know? > > > > mdadm -E /dev/ (e.g. /dev/sdc1) > > mdadm -D /dev/ (e.g. /dev/md0) &

Re: Moving mdadm raid volume to new OS install

2013-02-07 Thread Sam Martin
t; On 01/27/2013 10:13 PM, Sam Martin wrote: > > > > Thanks Frank, > > > > > > > > But this is kind of my backup. I don't have any capacity to backup to > > > another drive/ext HDD. > > > > > > Raid is not a backup. >

Re: Moving mdadm raid volume to new OS install

2013-01-27 Thread Sam Martin
present? What problems might I face using the raid config as is under 64bit dist? Thanks for your advice Sam On Sunday, January 27, 2013 3:50:01 PM UTC, Frank wrote: > On 01/27/2013 02:18 PM, Sam Martin wrote: > > > > > I'm about to reinstall linux using 64bit wheez

Re: Moving mdadm raid volume to new OS install

2013-01-27 Thread Sam Martin
Thanks for reply Pascal. How would I know? I've just posted a question to original response, do you happen to know the answer? Many thanks, Sam On Sunday, January 27, 2013 5:20:03 PM UTC, Pascal Hambourg wrote: > Hello, > > > > Sam Martin a ï¿œcrit : > > > T

Moving mdadm raid volume to new OS install

2013-01-27 Thread Sam Martin
Hi all, I'm about to reinstall linux using 64bit wheezy dist rather than the 32bit on i inadvertently used. I've got a copy of /etc but I'm concerned that in /etc/mdadm/mdadm.config there is no reference to the array. The only lines that are uncommented are CREATE owner=root group=disk mode=

Moving from Debian Wheezy - 32bit to 64bit

2013-01-22 Thread Sam Martin
I've made a bit of an error with a new NAS / HTPC i've setup. Only after a few weeks, I've realised I've put the 32bit version on rather than the 64bit dist. Aside from the inconvenience of having to fluke my way through user config, samba, ftp, xbmc, etc. more worrying for me is a raid volume

Moving from Debian Wheezy - 32bit to 64bit

2013-01-22 Thread Sam Martin
Hi all, I've made a bit of an error with a new NAS / HTPC i've setup. Only after a few weeks, I've realised I've put the 32bit version on rather than the 64bit one. Aside from the inconvenience of having to fluke my way through user config, samba, ftp, xbmc, etc. more worrying for me is a raid