Jammor
July 18th, 2013, 02:12 AM
first post.
In 2010, a friend and experienced Linux user helped me set up 10.04 LL in an atom box and using mdadm to set up a RAID5 array with 4x1TB. Works great...sits in the corner and stores ~1.6TB of my family's movies and jpegs and Crashplan backups. However, I'd like to upgrade to a more recent <or *the* most recent> Ubuntu version. However, I don't want to mess up my RAID configuration. Other than the ability to navigate around in it (and ask my friend, Google) I know very little about Linux but am pretty handy with hardware in general and with Windows.
Question --> Does anyone know if upgrading from 10.04 will cause problems with my mdadm RAID configuration?
One of the reasons I want to upgrade is I'm having trouble getting 10.04 to see more than 800GB of my 3TB hdd connected via usb enclosure. Win7 sees all of it (2.7TB usable) and its partitioned using GPT. I read online that my kernel in 10.04 - 2.6.32-23 generic - is too old for the 3TB drives. I figured I can either upgrade Ubuntu to a more recent version or if that won't work without messing up my RAID configuration, perhaps I could just update the kernel?
thx, James
In 2010, a friend and experienced Linux user helped me set up 10.04 LL in an atom box and using mdadm to set up a RAID5 array with 4x1TB. Works great...sits in the corner and stores ~1.6TB of my family's movies and jpegs and Crashplan backups. However, I'd like to upgrade to a more recent <or *the* most recent> Ubuntu version. However, I don't want to mess up my RAID configuration. Other than the ability to navigate around in it (and ask my friend, Google) I know very little about Linux but am pretty handy with hardware in general and with Windows.
Question --> Does anyone know if upgrading from 10.04 will cause problems with my mdadm RAID configuration?
One of the reasons I want to upgrade is I'm having trouble getting 10.04 to see more than 800GB of my 3TB hdd connected via usb enclosure. Win7 sees all of it (2.7TB usable) and its partitioned using GPT. I read online that my kernel in 10.04 - 2.6.32-23 generic - is too old for the 3TB drives. I figured I can either upgrade Ubuntu to a more recent version or if that won't work without messing up my RAID configuration, perhaps I could just update the kernel?
thx, James