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Re: RAID 5 questions (software)



On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 11:57:01AM -0500, Michael Martinell wrote:
> On Thu, July 7, 2005 11:11 am, Andy Smith said:
> > On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 10:53:34AM -0500, Michael Martinell wrote:
> >> I have been experiementing with the RAID stuff in Debian 3.1r0a
> >>
> >> In this experiment I configured as follows:
> >> 1st Hard Drive
> >> /boot 400mb
> >> swap 2GB
> >> partition for Raid volume 37 GB
> >>
> >> 2nd - 4th HD
> >> partition for Raid volume 37 GB.
> >
> > [...]
> >
> 
> When I was reworking the raid I noticed that the hard drive that I had
> replaced earlier was NTFS instead of ext3.  I take it that the raid
> controller does not reformat the drive to support the change?  What are
> the proper steps (or where are they located) for replacing a raid drive?

You never mentioned a RAID controller so I assumed software RAID.
If you have a hardware RAID controller then the steps are usually
unique to that hardware and you need to consult its documentation.

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