managing PERC raid

[Maurice Hilarius]

Jon LaBadie wrote:

> Hardware is Dell 670n workstation with Adaptec 79xx SCSI controller
> and Dell's PERC 320/DC raid controller.
>
> OS is RHEL 3 WS running in x86_64 mode.
>
> What tools, if any, are available for managing the raid system?
>
> As supplied, the 4 drives are in RAID 10, with just swap and
> a single, very large root partition.
>
> I'd like to split it into several, more manageable partitions.
> Figure I would approach it as split the mirror, reconfigure
> one side, copy things from the running side, make sure the
> split side will boot, then work on the other side.
>
> But I don't see any tools to work with the hardware raid.
>
Instead of that I suggest software RAID.
Use mdadm.


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