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- <li><em>date</em>: Sat Jan 24 21:45:58 2004</li>
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Drag0n
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On Sat, 2004-01-24 at 19:50, Greg wrote:
> I currently have a fileserver running RH 7.3 and my files are on a RAID 5
> group of hard drives (3) using software RAID and the OS is on a separate 4G
> disk. I set up the hard drives using raidtools. I also have 2 other disks
> in the fileserver. What I want to do is install Debian on the box since I
> can no longer expect RH to support it and I abhor upgrades. So my question
> is thus:
>
> Is it possible, if I wipe out RH and install Debian and mdadm, to
> re-construct the RAID 5 partition without any loss of data ? and what about
> the current order of the hard drives, does that matter ? (I am guessing no,
> since the parity bit is spread all over all 3 drives).
>
> TIA,
>
> Greg
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