[mythtv-users] Linux software raid question

Carl L. Gilbert clg-social at rigidsoftware.com
Sat Jun 7 03:23:09 UTC 2008


hmm.  When I start my disk for movies Ill give that a try.  It should
work well for my data.  The only reason I went away from soft raid was
because at the time booting from software raid was next to impossible. 


On Thu, 2008-06-05 at 08:38 -0400, John Drescher wrote:

> > So what do you do when one of your drives dies on software RAID?  Put in
> > a new drive and go about your business?  Nope.  Since you are not
> > RAIDing drives but partitions.  So you have to rebuild your partition
> > table on the new drive.  I don't know how thats done, but for me,
> > putting in a new drive and switching on the computer is very simple.
> >
> >
> Rebuilding the partition table is very easy.
> 
> sfdisk -d /dev/sda | sfdisk /dev/sdb
> 
> John
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