Replacing a RAID Drive

[Robert James Kaes <rjkaes@flarenet.com>]

Hello All,
I've set up a RAID 1 system with 2 hard drives in one of my computers.
Well, the unthinkable happened and one of the hard drives has failed. The
RAID switched over to the second hard drive without a problem, but now I
need to replace the failed drive. I've never done this before so I'm
wondering if there is anything I should know.

The RAID system is set up with auto-detection (partition type FD). Here's
what I plan on doing. Could anyone let me know if there is anything
wrong with this:

  1. Partition the new hard drive exactly the same as the failed drive. I
  have a copy of the partition table (sector counts) to use.

  2. Format the partitions on the new drive.

  3. Do a shutdown of the machine with the failed drive.

  4. Replace the failed drive and boot using a boot disk which boots root
  from /dev/md0

  5. Run raidhotadd on the various partitions.

  6. Wait for reconstruction to finish.

Is there anything I'm missing, or should watch out for? I'll be
partitioning and formating the new hard drive on a different computer.

Any help anyone can provide regarding this would be appreciated.

	Thanks.
		-- Robert
 
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