On 2024-04-06, Kirill A Korinsky <kir...@korins.ky> wrote: > On Sat, 06 Apr 2024 23:14:39 +0200, > Peter Hessler wrote: >> >> RAID0 is called that because zero is what you'll recover if you lose a >> disk. This is amazingly dangerous, and you're going to have a bad time. >> >> Do a backup, then restore from backup. >> > > I was totally misslead. I mean that I have RAID1 which is know as mirror. > > To be clear: here a two identical servers where I'd like to change FS > layout, and before I go to reinstall everything, I can try this approach.
softraid doesn't allow creating a 'degraded mirror' i.e. a single drive that you can later add another drive to make a RAID1. You would need at least one spare drive to do what you want. -- Please keep replies on the mailing list.
