Saicho
July 12th, 2012, 12:59 AM
I have an ancient ubuntu installation that I've been using for years in a box. The box has 3 physical drives. One drive that has the OS and / is mounted there. Two more drives are present in raid1 using mdadm where /home is mounted.
I would like to install a fresh modern ubuntu in a new box and move the existing mdadm raid over using the same setup. I'm comfortable installing ubuntu and mounting / on a disk.
Then I'd like to move the 2 physical raid disks over, get mdadm to recognize the raid, and mount /home there again.
Is there anything I need to watch out for, particularly with the order I do things? Obviously install a new ubuntu first. Then should I delete all users besides root? Will mounting /home get confused from all the data already there from an old installation? Do I need to create the same usernames?
Thanks in advance!
I would like to install a fresh modern ubuntu in a new box and move the existing mdadm raid over using the same setup. I'm comfortable installing ubuntu and mounting / on a disk.
Then I'd like to move the 2 physical raid disks over, get mdadm to recognize the raid, and mount /home there again.
Is there anything I need to watch out for, particularly with the order I do things? Obviously install a new ubuntu first. Then should I delete all users besides root? Will mounting /home get confused from all the data already there from an old installation? Do I need to create the same usernames?
Thanks in advance!