Date:  Sat, 27 Jun 2009 15:57:21 -0400
From:  Muntada Webmaster <webmaster (at mark) muntada.com>
Subject:  [coba-e:15744] Re: Hard Drive Failure
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Rickard,

Any idea on how long this might take to accomplish?

-Rashid

On 3/2/2009 5:18 PM, Rickard Osser wrote:
> Hi Rashid,
>
> sure, you can use the removed drive as a backup.
>
> Regards,
>
> Rickard
>
> On Mon, 2009-03-02 at 14:48 -0500, MuntadaNet Webmaster wrote:
>> All good information.  It seems doing this with a "test" for the 
>> first time might be wise to gain the experience and in the end, 
>> always have a backup to revert to.  Having said that, if you were to 
>> remove 1 drive from the RAID array, wouldn't that drive be good 
>> enough to fall back too?.
>>
>> -Rashid
>>
>> At 12:54 PM 3/2/2009, you wrote:
>> >On Mon, 2009-03-02 at 16:19 +0100, Rickard Osser wrote:
>> > > On Mon, 2009-03-02 at 15:04 +0000, Dogsbody wrote:
>> > > > >> It won't do it automatically and I have never tried it but I 
>> > am pretty
>> > > > >> sure that once you have done the above swap you will then be 
>> > able to go
>> > > > >> in and create another partition on the free space.  It is 
>> possible to
>> > > > >> grow existing partitions into the free space too but this > 
>> has to be done
>> > > > >> with those partitions offline (unmounted) and is not for the 
>> > feint of heart.
>> > > > >
>> > > > > Actually, it can be done on-line...
>> > > > > Read the instructions here:
>> > > > > http://linux-raid.osdl.org/index.php/Growing
>> > > >
>> > > >
>> > > > You REALLY don't want to use `fsck` or `resize2fs` on a live 
>> system!!!
>> > > >
>> > > > In fact fsck will throw up errors and I'm pretty sure resize2fs 
>> will
>> > > > refuse to run.
>> > > Hi Dan!
>> > >
>> > > Actually, don't run fsck on a live system, that's true, resize2fs 
>> will
>> > > work on a live system. I just made a migration from 2 16GB disks 
>> last
>> > > weekend to 2 new 500GB disks on a "production" system.
>> >
>> >Actually, I forgot, let the raid resync before doing any resize2fs and
>> >mdadm commands...
>> >
>> >Regards,
>> >
>> >--
>> >Rickard Osser <rickard.osser (at mark) bluapp.com>
>> >BluApp AB
>>
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