Hi, I've just bought a 1tb drive but can't afford another at the moment. I'd like to install FC9 as a degraded software array but can't in the installer. Is there a way around this? Jim
James Allsopp wrote:
Hi, I've just bought a 1tb drive but can't afford another at the moment. I'd like to install FC9 as a degraded software array but can't in the installer. Is there a way around this? Jim
I haven't found a way yet although I wish you could specify the second spindle as "missing" it would be useful. You can convert your system to a RAID system without much difficulty other than just the time it takes to move data to a new disk later. I posted an email to this list at the end of either June or July last year on the steps required to create a RAID array out of a non raid system.
Jeff
On Sun, Oct 05, 2008 at 16:00:46 -0400, Jeffrey Ross jeff@bubble.org wrote:
James Allsopp wrote:
Hi, I've just bought a 1tb drive but can't afford another at the moment. I'd like to install FC9 as a degraded software array but can't in the installer. Is there a way around this? Jim
I haven't found a way yet although I wish you could specify the second spindle as "missing" it would be useful. You can convert your system to
You can do that. 'mdadm -G /dev/md0 -f -n 1' should be close to what you want to use to change an existing raid 1 array with only one working element. Boot in rescue mode, adjust the array and then do the install.
On Sun, Oct 05, 2008 at 20:46:30 +0100, James Allsopp jamesaallsopp@googlemail.com wrote:
Hi, I've just bought a 1tb drive but can't afford another at the moment. I'd like to install FC9 as a degraded software array but can't in the installer. Is there a way around this? Jim
I believe it will work on a one element array. The installer won't let you create a one element raid 1 array (this has ben bugzilla'd and gotten a won't fix response), but if the array already exists you can install to it.