Re: Newbie question - Setting up a raid-linear, raid-1

1999-08-17 Thread David Wood
On Wed, 18 Aug 1999, Christian Ordig wrote: > > Michael, you cannot (as yet, AFAIK) take an existing ext2 partition and > > raid it without "reformatting" it. The only way to do it is to back up > > your data, repartition (as necessary), set up your raid, mkfs, and then > > restore the data into

Re: Newbie question - Setting up a raid-linear, raid-1

1999-08-17 Thread David Wood
On Tue, 17 Aug 1999, David Wood wrote: > On Tue, 17 Aug 1999, Michael Ghens wrote: > > > I have a running system that I would like to put into raid1. However, what > > I have read is that the mkraid command would erase everything. Is this > > true? Will I loose my data that I have, or is it only

Re: Newbie question - Setting up a raid-linear, raid-1

1999-08-17 Thread Christian Ordig
On 17-Aug-99 David Wood wrote: > Michael, you cannot (as yet, AFAIK) take an existing ext2 partition and > raid it without "reformatting" it. The only way to do it is to back up > your data, repartition (as necessary), set up your raid, mkfs, and then > restore the data into the new (multi-partit

Re: Newbie question - Setting up a raid-linear, raid-1

1999-08-17 Thread David Wood
On Tue, 17 Aug 1999, Michael Ghens wrote: > I have a running system that I would like to put into raid1. However, what > I have read is that the mkraid command would erase everything. Is this > true? Will I loose my data that I have, or is it only the second disk that > bites it. Michael, you ca