[Cialug] mirrored raid

[Dave Hala]

If its Linux software raid, remove the old drive from the array using
mdadm, physically install the new drive, partition it and set the
partition type, add the drive into back into the array using mdadm

Here's a good tutorial:

http://bryanesmith.com/docs/mdadm/#create


:) Dave

On Fri, Apr 8, 2016 at 8:10 PM, Daniel A. Ramaley
<daniel.ramaley at drake.edu> wrote:
> So, you have 1 boot drive and 2 other drives configured as a RAID1,
> correct? Software RAID or hardware RAID? Is LVM involved?
>
> Also, how many more drives (if any) can be physically installed into the
> system without removing any first?
>
> On 2016-04-08 at 19:59:10 Dan Hockey wrote:
>> I have a home made nas running openmediavualt. I have a pair of 160gb
>> sata drives for the shared drive(3 total with the boot drive). One
>> drive is starting to fail. I have a new pair of two 2tb drives.
>> Switching the drives one at a time,do I need to format the new drives
>> before using or will the software take care of things on its own?
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