Kelly Harding wrote:
One suggestion: think very carefully about whether you really want to do this.Aiming to get a couple of 1Tb drives to migrate the 3x500Gb RAID5 array to a RAID1 and use two of the 500Gb drives for thhe new boot drive with LVM (With /boot / /home and so on on it). Any suggestions gratefully recieved.
I'm currently in my third day of rebuilding a machine that had /boot and / on an LVM volume on raided disks. After one drive died, I ended up in a weird mode where LVM was mounting one of the component drives, rather than the raid volume - with the long result being that I'm reinstalling the o/s from scratch and hoping that my backups are good enough that I haven't lost any user data.
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