On Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 05:23:53PM +0100, Paul Csanyi wrote: > 2008/1/15, Andrew Sackville-West <andrew@farwestbilliards.com>: > > On Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 01:37:28PM +0100, Benjamin Schmidt wrote: > > > Paul Csanyi wrote: > > > >> I have installed Debian Etch with software raid 1. > > >> > > >> I am using for this two sata drives. > > >> > > >> Is it possyble to turn this system to non software raid? > > >> > > >> Doing so I wish to get the first sata drive to use with > > >> Debian Etch as non software raid, and to use second > > >> sata drive as a backup, and data drive. > > > > > > 1. Place your second harddisk to another bus (or plug it on over an > > > usb-sata adapter) OR Remove in ~ /etc/mdadm the second disk. > > > > can't you just remove the second disk from mdadm and be done? I guess > > you should turn off the raid portions of the boot by > > > > update-rc.d -f mdadm-raid remove > > > > I've not tested this, so buyer beware. > > Before that it is good maybe to edit fstab like bellow. > What do you think? > > # software raid > # > #/dev/md0 /boot ext3 defaults 0 2 > #/dev/md1 none swap sw 0 0 > #/dev/md2 / ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1 > #/dev/md3 /home ext3 defaults 0 2 > #/dev/md4 /adatok ext3 defaults 0 2 > > # GNU/Linux > # > /dev/sda3 /boot ext3 defaults 0 2 > /dev/sda5 none swap sw 0 0 > /dev/sda6 / ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1 > /dev/sda7 /home ext3 defaults 0 2 > /dev/sda8 /adatok ext3 defaults 0 2 > > these abowe corresponds togeather (each - others). definitely a good idea. you might have to rebuild the initrd as well. A
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