RAID Munging Question

[kentborg at borg.org (Kent Borg)]

On Fri, Apr 05, 2002 at 12:19:07PM -0500, I wrote:
> Here is my current best guess:
> 
>   1. Reboot single user (so little will being going on)
> 
>   2. Tar up /home and park it in another partition--luckily I do have
>      the room,
> 
>   3. Edit /etc/raidtab so /dev/md5 line that currently reads
>      "raid-level 0" will read "raid-level 1",
> 
>   4. "# unmount /home"
> 
>   5. "# mkraid /dev/md5",
> 
>   6. "# mkfs /dev/md5",
> 
>   7. Wait for mkfs to finish,
> 
>   8. "# mount /dev/md5 /home",
> 
>   9. See if df sees right size disk,
> 
>  10. Disconnect internet connection (don't want any new e-mail yet),

Think I should add:

 10-1/2.  Wait for mkraid's mirroring to finish

>  11. Reboot regularly, things working?,
> 
>  12. Plug in internet connection.


-kb