On Tue, May 31, 2022 at 3:44 AM Marjorie Roome via Dng
<dng@???> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> On Mon, 2022-05-30 at 17:03 -0500, o1bigtenor via Dng wrote:
> > Greetings
> >
> > I am investing in a new system.
> > (Ryzen 7 5800X + Ryzen 570 gpu)
> >
> > The old system has a raid 10 array that I would like to put into the
> > new system.
> >
> > The new system is going to add 2 M2 drives that I want to set up as
> > raid 1
> > and this is for use for /EFI, /boot, /, /var, /usr and swap.
> > There are 2 2.5" SDDs that are going to be set up as raid 1 for
> > /home.
> > Want to be running Devuan daedalus.
> >
> > The idea is to transfer the previously used drives from the old
> > system
> > into the new system.
> >
> > The question:
> > is it better to load the system and then add the hard drives
> >
> > or
> >
> > do I move the drives into the system and then install the system with
> > the drives at the same time.
> >
> > (2 step process or 1 step process.)
> >
>
> I recently updated my CPU to AMD5600G from a 10 year old Phenom II 910
> x4.This required a new AM4 B550 motherboard and DDR4 RAM.
>
> Initially I just installed these in my existing case, connected up the
> old SATA drives (2 x 500 SSD GB RAID1 and 2 x 1TB HDD RAID1+LSB) and it
> booted up fine.
>
> Worth checking that your fstab and grub identifies your drives/RAID by
> UUID or LABEL, rather than /sdX and /MDx, as these can change order
> when connected to different SATA ports.
>

Thanks miss Marjorie!
One thing I hadn't thought of!!
My present system drives and raid are all identified by UUID so that
should help things!

Thanks!!!