On Mon, 2 Nov 2009, Joe Pruett wrote: >> 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.
E.g., http://djlab.com/2009/05/convert-single-disk-to-raid-on-live-linux-server/ -- Paul Heinlein <> [email protected] <> http://www.madboa.com/ _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
