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Hi all, As part of my raid experience, I have yet to have to do this, but was wondering how you guys would attempt it. I have 3 drives in a raid 1, with one as a hot spare. They are 250gb with all space used by two raid devices, 1 with boot, the other with LVMs filling them up. Now, lets say down the road I want to put in 500gb drives and replace them....yikes. I was thinking of taking out the

Hi, I had this hard time installing a server with RAID 1 by software. I always got an error from GRUB and no booting. So, i've installed CentOS 4.4 normally in only one disk. Question is: is it possible now to make a RAID 1 by software with the other disk ? If so, how ? I'm completely lost here. Any help would be appreciated. Warm Regards, M?rio Gamito -------------- next part

Hi there I got Suse 9.3 on a raid 1 (md0 :boot and root and md1 home) When I try to get the xen kernel booted, the process goes up to a certain point and then reboots I got two problems: 1) Since I used default suse parameters I would assume all my settings should be OK, so why does it not boot? 2) When booting and getting to the reboot point, it holds the messages only for one second. How can

...The only way I know how to get a drives serial number is via the smartctl command like "smartctl -d 3ware,[0-15] -i /dev/twa0", but that does not tell me which sd[a-z] the drive is assigned to. Here is what I have tried. Creating a single large partition with fdisk on each drive as linux autoraid to get a uuid. for some reason the OS assigns the same uuid and only one uuid to the last drive I partition from the 3ware card. Basically all drives on the 3ware card have the same uuid.. Using the /dev/disk/by-id/. For some reason the 3ware card does not always assign the same id to a drive aft...