RAID Munging Question
Kent Borg
kentborg at borg.org
Fri Apr 5 12:26:23 EST 2002
On Fri, Apr 05, 2002 at 12:19:07PM -0500, I wrote:
> Here is my current best guess:
>
> 1. Reboot single user (so little will being going on)
>
> 2. Tar up /home and park it in another partition--luckily I do have
> the room,
>
> 3. Edit /etc/raidtab so /dev/md5 line that currently reads
> "raid-level 0" will read "raid-level 1",
>
> 4. "# unmount /home"
>
> 5. "# mkraid /dev/md5",
>
> 6. "# mkfs /dev/md5",
>
> 7. Wait for mkfs to finish,
>
> 8. "# mount /dev/md5 /home",
>
> 9. See if df sees right size disk,
>
> 10. Disconnect internet connection (don't want any new e-mail yet),
Think I should add:
10-1/2. Wait for mkraid's mirroring to finish
> 11. Reboot regularly, things working?,
>
> 12. Plug in internet connection.
-kb
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