codedummy@hotmail.com wrote: > Hello, > > Has anybody a tutorial or a success story about this kind of task? > > I have a webserver already running with two identical discs but currently > setup without any redundancy (just simple backup). > Can I prepare the second IDE disc on the fly to be part of a mirror set > (raid 1)? > The filesystem ist ext2... > I am a newbie on debian and don't know if the kernel supports raid at all. > > I have to be 100 % sure that this "upgrade" works and wanted to do it that > way: > > repartition drive 2 > format drive 2 (create a fs) > copy system from drive 1 to drive 2 > change all reference from drive 1 to drive 2 > add a second system to LILO > reboot the system to drive 2 > build first raid drive on drive 2 > reboot to drive 2 > add drive 1 > reboot > having a raid 1 and then sleep better... > > Any details/changes to the process are welcome! > > Please help...Thank you very much > Peter > > > > > This is likely not possible. You would need to have to similarly sized (or indentically sized) partitions *and* each would have to be marked as partition type "Linux RAID." If there is already a filesystem on the partition, it is not possible to redesignate the partition type without making the data on it inaccessible. -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~roberto
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