On Thursday, January 2, 2020 9:47:44 AM MST Bruno Wolff III wrote: > On Tue, Dec 31, 2019 at 17:05:41 -0700, > > "John M. Harris Jr." <johnmh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >If that's the case for LVM, then it seems that mdadm would be the easier > >and safer option. You simply create an array with a missing disk, copy the > >data over, then add the existing disk to the array. > > If you copy block by block, you still need to make sure you have room for > the metadata and the filesystem. If you are thinking about using cp, then > you need to worry about sparse and special files and maybe hard links. The way I'd personally handle it would depend on how the original system was partitioned. For example, you can safely take a few MiB off a new swap partition, or shrink a filesystem. > Note you can also use partitions for arrays rather than a whole disk. > > Also note that raid doesn't replace backups. There are others ways to > wreck your data than having a disk drive fail. I mentioned this in my earlier reply to the thread. -- John M. Harris, Jr. Splentity _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
