Re: mdadm on my personal fileserver

[Steven Pritchard <steve@silug.org>]

On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 12:07:52PM -0500, Kamikaze Joe wrote:
> Looking to update my personal fileserver.  Currently its running a
> software RAID 1 using mdadm.  It's only stores data, as the OS is on
> an separate drive.  Naturally I would like to keep the data intact.  I
> can't find a straight answer out there.  From what I can tell I should
> be able to just mount the RAID after the upgrade and have it work.
> This sounds far too simple and I was hoping someone could confirm this
> before doing something stupid.  Thanks in advance.

If /etc/mdadm.conf isn't touched, it should all Just Work.

If you lose that file, do "mdadm -Esc partitions >> /etc/mdadm.conf" to
more-or-less get it back.  Then just mdadm -A /dev/whatever to
re-activate it.

Steve
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