Migrate to larger raid 1 vol

Rashkae ubuntu at tigershaunt.com
Thu Jun 19 13:10:31 UTC 2014


On 14-06-19 08:49 AM, Rashkae wrote:
> On 14-06-19 08:09 AM, Darko Gavrilovic wrote:
>> Hi. I run a 12.04 LTS server system with a RAID 1 mirror made up if 2 
>> x 1tb
>> drives. I want to migrate to a larger RAID 1 mirror made up of 2 x 3tb
>> drives. It there any way to do this "in place" without having to 
>> backup and
>> restore and/or reinstall packages?
>>
>>
>
> Yepp.. you can do with both drives at the same time if you have 2 free 
> sata ports, or just one drive at a time.
>

I forgot to mention... if either of these 1TB drives are your boot 
drive, you should also grab a copy of the super grub boot disc.  you can 
use it to boot the system afterwards, and use grub-install to re-install 
grub and fix your boot.






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