Hi, In addition to my system drive /dev/hda (with all my standard partitions /, /home. swap ... ), I have a raid1 device.
The raid is 2 - 250GB drives, with partitions /dev/hdb1 and /dev/hdc1 respectively (each the whole drive) each partitioned as linux fd (raid) type, and configured as part of /dev/md0 as raid1. I had formated /dev/md0 as ext3 and I have 250 gb of data stored on the raid. Now I no longer need the data storage redundancy on that machine and would like to treat the individual hard drives /dev/hdb1 and /dev/hdc1 as 2 copies of the same data and move them separately to different machines. Is there some way to convert from "ext3 file system set on top of a degraded /dev/md0 device" to 2 separate devices " ext3 file system on /dev/hdb1" and "ext3 file system on /dev/hdc1", without copying to another drive... I hope my question is clear... Here is a circumstance that this might come up. I have 1 system and 4 data hard drives on a workstation. I like storing actively collected data on mirrored drives, while older data does not need mirroring. Thus initially I would like /dev/hdb1 and /dev/hdc1 to be mirrored until /dev/hdb1 is filled up, then I would like to think of /dev/hdb1 as a standard ext3 file sysem and let /dev/hdc1 and /dev/hdd1 mirror each other, then when that fills, use /dev/hdb1, and /dev/hdc1 as ext3 while /dev/hdd1 and /dev/hde1 be mirrors. I suppose I could let /dev/hdb1, and /dev/hdc1 persist as "degraded raids /dev/md0 and /dev/md1, but that seems to be a overhead that wouldn't be nice to carry around. Thanks for your help! Mitchell -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
