Re: Help needed on replacing a failed drive

1PW wrote:
amerdsp wrote:
I am new to linux so forgive me if I misstate something..
I have three drives, two of which make one data volume in Fedora 5.
The main drive still works fine but one of the two other drives died.
I get the following on the boot screen:

Setting up logical volume management: 2 logical volumes in colume
group "VolGroup00" now active

Checking file systems
'sck.ext3: Unable to resolve 'LABEL=/var'


The data on the two drives is not important. I was wondering if I can
replace the drive and have it become part of VolGroup00 without
reinstalling the OS.

Is this possible?

Thank you,

-- A

At least on my own system, /var contains a lot that I value. I have
to think that something in your /var will eventually be missed and
needed.

At this point, it's usually stated that you can restore from your most
recent backup. :-)

Perhaps it's time to consider building something newer. Perhaps with
Fedora 7 or so. That would then be your opportunity to get a complete
/var again. I read that some folks have issues with Fedora 9 you
might like it anyway.

Fedora 7 becomes unsupported on June 13. F8 or F9 are your best Fedora options. I run F9 on one of my machines. I don't like the new Gnome. Lots of folks don't like the new Gnome. It's a matter of taste. But it all works.

If you've got three drives, I'd suggest making RAID 1 (or 5) arrays rather than volume groups. If you lose a drive in a volume group, essentially the whole group is bad. If you lose a drive in a RAID 1 or RAID 5 array (anything but RAID 0), you can replace the drive with a similarly sized one, no problem. Of course RAID costs drive space to gain redundancy.
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