> Is it possible to take an ordinary, non-RAIDed hard drive, and turn it
> into a mirror without losing any data, using linux software RAID?

i'm assuming you have one disk with data and one spare.  the safe way is 
to create a broken mirror with the spare drive and "missing" as the 
other piece.  then copy all the data from the current drive to the mirror. 
then reboot off the mirror and add the original drive to the mirror so it 
can resync.  this involves lots of fdisk, mdadm, tar/rsync/cp, etc. so you 
really need to know what you're doing.
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