My motherboard is acting up and can only boot up with 3 out of 4 SATA disks.
The disks are as follows
1 * 640 GB Divided into:[list] - /
30’ish GB*]/home*]3 * 1 TB in software RAID 5
*]mounted as /home/username/Shared
*]1 * 120 GB (IDE instead of SATA, not relevant to the problem)[/list]
The PC with the above disks has openSUSE 11.0 x86_64 installed on the 640GB disk and as such to keep it operational with just 3 SATA disks I had to disconnect one of the RAID array disks.
A new motherboard as well as a new processor are already ordered to replace the faulty hardware. (old setup is s754… can’t find a proper replacement motherboard :<)
As openSUSE 11.1 will be out soon I’m planning to do the replacement of the hardware at the same time, how do I go about rebuilding the raid 5 array? (as one disk is obviously out of sync now)
I’ve now replaced the hardware, a bit more then I originally intended to… new motherboard, RAM, processor and videocard. Anyways… I installed 11.1 and it went pretty much flawless. The installer picked up my old situation and made me the raid with 2 out of 3 disks again. Although I selected import mount points during the install it was ignored not much of a problem as I successfully mounted it via Yast Control Center > System > Partitioner.
Now I’d like to add my third disk back to the raid array so I actually got some redundancy as at the moment if one of the 1 TB disks dies all the data is gone… However under Yast Control Center > System > Partitioner I can’t seem to find an option to add it to the existing array.
