On 17-Aug-99 David Wood wrote:
> Michael, you cannot (as yet, AFAIK) take an existing ext2 partition and
> raid it without "reformatting" it. The only way to do it is to back up
> your data, repartition (as necessary), set up your raid, mkfs, and then
> restore the data into the new (multi-partition/drive-based) filesystem.
Have you read the latest Software-RAID HowTo?
There is a description how to setup a Root-RAID system using an existing disk
and another one without destroying the contents of the existing disk.
This also works for non-Root FS setups, of course.
cu.
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