On Tue, May 31, 2022 at 1:00 AM tito via Dng <dng@???> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 30 May 2022 17:03:56 -0500
> o1bigtenor via Dng <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.)
> Hi,
> I've done this before and it could be done in both ways
> without problems, but to avoid confusion in the install
> and disk format step I nowadays prefer to do it in multiple steps:
> 1) install system with only the needed system drives.
> 2) when the system is installed and fully setup add the raid arrays one by one
> 3) assemble the array
> 4) modify /etc/fstab, /etcmdadm/mdadm.conf, update-initramfs
> 5) add scrubbing to crontab
> 6) add the drives to smartd.conf
> 7) reboot, check that array is up at boot
> 8) go to step 3 for the next array and so on until done.
>

Thank you for the recommendations!!

I'm not sure what # 4 through 6 are doing and how to do them or
why to do them.

Please advise.

TIA