At 03:28 01.03.00, Rainer Mager wrote:
>I'm trying to add mirroring RAID to an existing partition. Is this possible?
>It appears to me that when I do mkraid I'm going to kill the existing data.
>Is there no way to tell it to use my exisiting data in a new RAID seting and
>sync it to the new partition(s)?
The problem with doing this is that the space available for the filesystem
is is smaller for raid because of the persistent raid superblock.
Usually, an acceptable method for converting is to create a raid device
using just one disk, copy the data to this new raid device and add the old
disk to the raid device after verifying all works ok. see jakobs raid-howto
for details, should be described there.
Bye, Martin
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