FastTrak TX2000 and RHEL 3.1

[Samuel Flory]

Jonathan Baker-Bates wrote:
>>   It's really quite easy to replace a drive.
>>
>>1)Just create the same partition layout on the new drive.
>>You just want  to do this*:
>>`fdisk -d /dev/hde > /etc/hde.sfdisk`
>>`fdisk -d /dev/hdg > /etc/hdg.sfdisk`
>>then if hdg fails `sfdisk /dev/hdg < /etc/hdg.sfdisk`
>>
>>2)Do a 'raidhotadd /dev/md(array number) /dev/hd(partition number) for
>>each array.  Look in /etc/raidtab for details on what maps to what.
>>
>>
>>*Personally I'm really lazy so I do this :
>>dd if=/dev/gooddrive of=/dev/replacementdrive count=1024
>>echo "w" |fdisk /dev/replacementdrive
>>(copy the partition table from the good drive to the new drive, and use
>>fdisk to force linux to reread the partition table.)
>>
> 
> 
> Ah great (although the fdisk with Red Hat doesn't have a -d switch). I'll
> mail the Software RAID Howto maintainer and suggest he expands his section
> on recovery to include something like this.
> 

   Opps that should have been sfdisk -d;-)

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