On Thu, 27 Apr 2000, Tuomas Toivonen wrote:
> I have an existing RAID-0 device that I would like to convert to RAID-5.
>
> I've done the necessary changes to my /etc/raidtab, but mkraid fails because
> (I assume) it finds an existing persistent superblock on the old RAID-0
> partitions.
>
> So my question becomes: How does one erase the raid persistent superblock
> from a physical partition? Or, more generally, what'd be the right way to
> switch from RAID-0 to RAID-5?
>
I would:
- backup everything in raid-0
- mkraid raid-5, destrying old raid-0
- restore from backup
I think Jakob Østergaard has made raid-reconf utility
which you can use to grow raid0 arrays. But i think
i didn't support converting from raid0 to raid5. Or
perhaps it alraeady does =? :)
-- Mika <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
