On Friday 05 December 2008 21:44:59 Jean-Christophe Baptiste wrote:
Hi,
I think you did not search much. A link I quickly found with google : http://mindache.net/wp/2008/02/18/raid1-to-raid5-with-lvm-resizing
This is well explained : it consists in creating a degraded RAID 5 with only 2 disks, transfer your data and then complete the RAID 5.
JC
Many thanks. You're right, I should google more. Having read Scott Wallace's link, it looks as if I could transfer all my disks (2 x 1TB as the RAID1 array and 250GB which holds /, /usr, /var and swap) into my new machine, boot to level 3, stop /dev/md0, create the new RAID5 array, then add the third new disk. Scott Wallace booted using a rescue disk for the first stage, but I assume that is because his OS was on the RAIDed array. Of course, I will backup all my data, but it looks as though the data survives the conversion process, which is good news. Bob -- Registered Linux User #463880 FSFE Member #1300 GPG-FP: A6C1 457C 6DBA B13E 5524 F703 D12A FB79 926B 994E openSUSE 11.0, Kernel 2.6.25.18-0.2-default, KDE 3.5.10 Intel Celeron 2.53GHz, 2GB DDR RAM, nVidia GeForce 7600GS -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org