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Re: raid question



You'd think that since it's a mirror, it would work fine right?
Apparently not. Last time I tried this stunt, I nearly toasted 45 GB of
data.

Edward

On Sun, 2003-08-17 at 23:19, Rudy Gevaert wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I was wondering can I set up raid when a partition is mounted?
> e.g.  hda3 is /home and I want to set up raid1 with hdc3.  
> 
> Can I run mkraid when hda3 is in use?  I would use the following
> raidtab:
> 
> raiddev /dev/md0
>         raid-level      1
>         nr-raid-disks   2
>         nr-spare-disks  0
>         chunk-size      4
>         persistent-superblock 0
>         device          /dev/hda3
>         raid-disk       0
>         device          /dev/hdc3
>         raid-disk       1
> 
> Also, would I lose data?  When happens if I change the above order?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> 
> 
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