Only "solution" I've found is to boot up in single user mode and copy stuff
so that you free up partitions. Then you could make your raid device,
format it, mount it, and copy stuff back. Depending on the layout and size
of you partitions this could be extremely easy or extremely hard.
fwr
----- Original Message -----
From: Chris Palazzolo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, May 28, 1999 5:58 PM
Subject: Raid mirroring with Linux 6.0?
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to mirror two drives (/dev/hda & /dev/hdb) to a /dev/md0 array
in
> Linux 6.0.
>
> The OS is currently on /dev/hda and is running fine. My question is, how
> can I create a RAID mirror set without losing the data? I've obvioulsy
got
> your e-mail from the "-force" option and wanted to see if anyone else has
> come across this.
>
> This should be a common occurrence/question since the newer Linux supports
> mirroring.
>
> Any help would be nice - even a place to go for help on this matter...
>
> Thanks,
>
> Chris Palazzolo
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
