Roberto Sanchez said: > Is it possible to create a linear software RAID without losing the data on > the disks? If so how? I have read the Software-RAID HOWTO on tldp.org, > but it specifically said that creating a RAID device would destroy the > data on the disks (I just want to know if there is a workaround). easy. copy the data to another disk then copy it back after the RAID is initialized :) nate