14 Aug
2009
14 Aug
'09
3:06 p.m.
I have a server which has 1 drive holding the O/S, and 4-off 500GB drives as two pairs of RAID1 (mdraid) arrays.
I want to replace the 500GB drives with 1TB drives.
What is the best way to do this?
Ideally I'd do it offline, just copy (and resize) the partitions across and then put the disks back into the machine and boot it. But I don't know if there's any software that would allow me to do that.
So all suggestions welcome.
(I don't recall now why I have 2-off RAID1 arrays; a single RAID 5 array might be a better use of the drives, in which case the same question arises: how do I migrate to that configuration?)
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