Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1569 mails)

["Brandon Carl" <spleeyah@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> > On 07/10/2007 01:35 PM, Brandon Carl wrote:
> > OK, I can successfully boot from either hard drive and choose the
> > option to boot from HDA or the RAID drive from grub.
> Good.
> > Now what do I do from here?
> First, as you seem to realize, you need to be certain your data is
> synced.  Then, you will be changing the partition type on hda to linux
> software raid (fd).  You can do this in Yast, System, Partitioner, which
> you can then use to add the new raid partitions to your existing raid,
> thus allowing for both drives to work.
> > I'm pretty sure the data is all copied over, but is there a way I can
> > be sure?
> rsync  Mount the raid devices on /mnt, ie. mount /dev/md10 /mnt, then
> mount /dev/md11 /mnt/home.
> Then, rsync -auvzH --exclude=/proc --exclude=/sys / /mnt/ (you can add a
> -n for a dry-run to check, man rsync for more info).  I think that would
> do it.
> > You said something about using rsync, but I'm not familiar with that
> > tool.
> It is a great tool.  Check it out.
> > And then, once that is done, how do I "add" the old drive into the
> > RAID array.
> either using mdadm, i.e. mdadm /dev/md10 -a /dev/hdax (what ever
> partition it is.), etc., for md11 or you can use Yast partitioner.  HTH.
>
> --
> Joe Morris
> Registered Linux user 231871 running openSUSE 10.2 x86_64
Hurray!!  It is working!
Finally!
I think I might create a tutorial on how to do this in case others run into 
the same situation I was in.

So, finally, is there a way I can make absolutely sure the raid array is up, 
running, and mirroring before I release this server back onto my company's 
network?

-Brandon 

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