Re: Moving Software RAID5 from Gentoo

[Geoffrey Sneddon <geoffers@gmail.com>]

On 20 May 2007, at 10:04, martin f krafft wrote:

> also sprach Roberto C. Sánchez <roberto@connexer.com>  
> [2007.05.20.0038 +0200]:
> > I am not sure if the installer will automatically recognize an  
> > existing
> > RAID and set it up for you while preserving the data.  If it does  
> > not,
> > you can jump over to another VT, manually start the array and then  
> > tell
> > it to use that as /home without formatting it.
>
> It should recognise it and start it on reboot. You can also start it
> with /etc/init.d/mdadm-raid start by hand. Once it's started, it'll
> be listed in /proc/mdstat and you can mount the filesystem from
> fstab, where you need to make an entry.

Thanks to both of you, I was hoping that'd be the answer.

- Geoffrey Sneddon.