On Mon, 2 Nov 2009, Joe Pruett wrote: > Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2009 09:30:22 -0800 (PST) > From: Joe Pruett <[email protected]> > Reply-To: "General Linux/UNIX discussion and help; civil and on-topic" > <[email protected]> > To: "General Linux/UNIX discussion and help; civil and on-topic" > <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [PLUG] Linux RAID1 question > >> 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.
Your assumptions re: disk configuration are correct. I will try it! The ability to create a broken mirror is key. Thanks. Carlos _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
