Hi, I want to replace my hard drives based SW RAID-1 with SSD's. What would be the recommended procedure? Can I just remove one drive, replace with SSD and rebuild, then repeat with the other drive? Thanks Frank -- <listfrank1 at gmail.com>
> Hi, > > I want to replace my hard drives based SW RAID-1 with SSD's. > > What would be the recommended procedure? Can I just remove one drive, > replace with SSD and rebuild, then repeat with the other drive?I suggest to "mdadm --fail" one drive, then "mdadm --remove" it. After replacing the drive you can "mdadm --add" it. If you boot from the drives you also have to care for the boot loader. I guess this depends on how exactly the system is configured. Regards, Simon
On 11/23/20 10:46 AM, Simon Matter wrote:>> Hi, >> >> I want to replace my hard drives based SW RAID-1 with SSD's. >> >> What would be the recommended procedure? Can I just remove one drive, >> replace with SSD and rebuild, then repeat with the other drive? > > I suggest to "mdadm --fail" one drive, then "mdadm --remove" it. After > replacing the drive you can "mdadm --add" it. > > If you boot from the drives you also have to care for the boot loader. I > guess this depends on how exactly the system is configured.Thanks, that's what I had in mind. Of course, I will rebuild grab2 after each iteration. Thanks Fra -- <listfrank1 at gmail.com>