I've had a 9-gig SCSI Seagate drive in my machine for a while, and it's
mostly full. I've got two new drives and would like to build a RAID-5
with all three drives. Trouble is I don't have anywhere to backup what
I've got, so what I'd like to do is build my RAID 5 in degraded mode, and
copy all my files over, then raidhotadd my original drive to become the
backup. Is this possible, if so how?
Things I've tried:
1) Using /dev/null for one of the disks -- hey, i know it's stupid, but i
would have felt stupid if I hadn't at least tried it before posting.
2) Use my swap partition as one of the RAID drives. This seemed to be
working, but I was afraid it would think I had a teeny-tiny RAID.
3) Commenting out one of the raid-disk entries (of course mkraid wouldn't
run at all).
Anyway, I'd greatly appreciate any comments you can provide. Thank you!
Mark
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