Setting up software RAID5 on 2nd, 3rd, and 4th disks
James Pifer
jep at obrien-pifer.com
Wed Nov 15 15:15:38 UTC 2006
On Wed, 2006-11-15 at 14:28 +0000, Paul Howarth wrote:
> James Pifer wrote:
> > I have a system up and running. I have added three other disks to the
> > system that I'd like to setup RAID5 just to have a little bit of
> > redundancy. These disks will be used for storage only, so hopefully
> > setting up a software RAID won't slow down the system too much.
> >
> > Question is, how do I setup the RAID on these disks after the system
> > already has FC5 running? I've done as part of the setup before. I have
> > looked at some howto's but they seem pretty old.
> >
> > Is there a GUI for setting up RAID?
>
> I don't think so but the manpage for mdadm has some useful examples.
>
> Paul.
>
Hi Paul. Thanks, I was able to get it done using mdadm.
James
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