On Mon, 2 Nov 2009, Paul Heinlein wrote: > Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2009 09:37:23 -0800 (PST) > From: Paul Heinlein <[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 > > 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/
Thank you, this worked great. RAID built successfully. Copying the data via tar was a little weird; I used rsync. Carlos _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
