Migrating to software raid on fc3

Eric Persson eric at persson.tm
Mon Feb 27 11:40:20 UTC 2006


Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> There might be some advanced grub settings that you can specify 
> beforehand to explicitly set the drive mapping, when grub gets 
> installed.  Rooting around grub docs may find something.  The 
> alternative is to boot the FC install disk in rescue mode, after 
> swapping the drives.  The rescue mode should find your new partitions, 
> and mount them.  Then, you chroot to the root partition on the hard 
> drive and reinstall the bootloader; with the correct drive mappings.
> 
> 
I see,  it seems like a readup on the grubstuff is a good idea before. :)

Both the old and new drives are ide ones, so the only change will really 
be the software raid and sizedifference on the drives.

Do you possible know anything about the resizing of ext3 partitions?

Thanks in advance,
	Eric





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