> Well actually.....
>
> - Edit /etc/fstab and /etc/lilo.conf (or whatever) to make it
> think that /dev/hda2 is your root partitions,
> - reboot,
> - run the mdctl commands, excluding the --add
> - put /etc/fstab and /etc/lilo.conf back
> - reboot
> - run the mdctl --add
>
> You cannot do it without a reboot or two, but it should work
> fine with two reboots.
Unfortunately it didn't seem to like me creating an array with a mounted
partition:
# mdctl --create /dev/md0 --level=1 --raid-disks=2 /dev/hda2 missing
mdctl: /dev/hda2 appears to contain an ext2fs file system
size=6144768K mtime=Thu Feb 21 19:12:09 2002
mdctl: /dev/hda2 appear to be part of a raid array:
level=1 disks=1 ctime=Thu Feb 21 13:24:58 2002
Continue creating array? y
mdctl: ADD_NEW_DISK for /dev/hda2 failed: Invalid argument
and syslog said:
md: can not import hda2, has active inodes!
md: error, md_import_device() returned -16
But, I was able to get it going another way. I just copied all files from
the first drive (hda) over to the second drive (hdc) manually, then created
a new array containing /dev/hdc2 and 'missing'. Then I set lilo to boot off
of /dev/md0 again, rebooted, and added the first drive (hda) to the array.
Thanks for the help.
Jordan Russell
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