On 11/14/05, Alvin Oga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Mon, 14 Nov 2005, Siju George wrote: > > > I had a mirror o sarge with 2 disks. One of them failed now. I had > > given an option for 1 spare disk while configuring Raid. Could some > > one please tell me what I should do to Place a new disk and recreate > > the mirror?? Should I manually partition the new disk or is there a > > command that I can run after connecting the disk so that the Raid > > Partitions will be created automatically and the rest of the space in > > the hard disk be freely available? I would like to place an 80 GB disk > > instead of a 40 GB one. > > - it would be pointless to use a new 80gb disk instead of a 40gb disk > - the other 40gb is sorta wasted and unused >
Samsung hard disks we get around here develop bad sectors very fast. They replace the disks also very fast. I want to replace the 40 GB wit two 80 GBs. Thus I can get rid of Samsung disks altogether from the system. > - if your system crashed: > - why did it crash > - how did it crash > - when did it crash > - did you change software/upgrades > - is it still running in degraded mode > - did you backup the data on a new media ( eg the new 80gb disk ) > Bad sectors on "hda" was the reason for the crash. Now the Server is running with only 1 hard disk. "hdc". The disk "hda" wont run in degraded mode. The system won't even startup if I boot from it, > - buy hardware that doesn't break ... disk doesn't die as much > as dead fans or dead power supplies ... > ie .. if you didn't replace fans and ps before ... > the vendor of your disks is probably throwing it around > like baseballs > No probs with Fans power supply etc. > - if your raid is configured properly .. > - you will be able to pull any single disk out and it will > still boot and operate ( but you dont have the redundancy anymore) > Yes hdc boots and the system is up and running with only one disk. > - you will be able to install a new disk, partition it the > same as the disk you're replacing, and "the raid" should > start syncing the new disk into the raid array > Is there a quick way to partition it the sane way as the disk I am replacing?? Again I am replacing the 40 GB with the 80 GB one. > - cat /proc/mdstat to see what is doing or not doing > - if its syncing .. leave it alone .. do not power off, > or add new files, unless you like to be on the bleeding > edge and test that the raid stuff is working "right" > alright :-) Kind Regards Siju
