Dear forum,
This is probably my first post here.
Recently I have got a dedicated CentOS 5 x86_64 server running RAID 1 500 GB using mdadm.
Here is my /proc/mdstat
Code:
Personalities : [raid1]
md0 : active raid1 sdb1[1] sda1[0]
56128 blocks [2/2] [UU]
md1 : active raid1 sdb3[1] sda3[0]
487275456 blocks [2/2] [UU]
unused devices: <none>
Here is my grub.conf
Code:
# grub.conf generated by anaconda
#
# Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file
# NOTICE: You have a /boot partition. This means that
# all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg.
# root (hd0,0)
# kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/hda3
# initrd /initrd-version.img
#boot=/dev/hda
serial --unit=0 --speed=57600
terminal serial
default=0
timeout=10
#splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
#hiddenmenu
title CentOS 5 (Disk 1)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz ro root=LABEL=/ console=tty0 console=ttyS0,57600
initrd /initrd
title CentOS 5 (Disk 2)
root (hd1,0)
kernel /vmlinuz ro root=LABEL=/ console=tty0 console=ttyS0,57600
initrd /initrd
Here is my mount output as well
Code:
/dev/md1 on / type ext3 (rw)
none on /proc type proc (rw)
none on /sys type sysfs (rw)
none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620)
/dev/md0 on /boot type ext2 (rw)
none on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw)
none on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw)
I noticed it from /etc/redhat-release it is CentOS 5.3 final.
I have been thinking about updating it to CentOS 5.5 via yum update, but part of the new packages are a new kernel and a new grub and this makes me unsure since it will be big hassle to reimage if this fails.
Is it safe to perform this update ? Are there any known problems I should look out for ?
Any experience or advice appreciated :-).
