I'm surprised to find such little info on copying an existing filesystem onto a new raid partition. The howto's use cp -a or pipe to cpio -pm . I've tried both methods, but here we have the problem of symbolic links and hardlinks not being copied, which when you have an elaborate system that you'd like to migrate across to raid, doesn't cut the mustard. Has anyone tried or succeeded with any alternate methods? Are there any utilities such as parted to copy the whole lot. I'm not sure how apps such as parted work, but as /dev/mdX is formatted with mke2fs, as is most root filesystem, I'd like to hope that with a raid aware kernel and the root filesystem unmounted it could be copied directly eg. /dev/hda1 => /dev/mdX. Apologies if this topic has been visited before, I couldn't find any reference to it in the archives... Lewis - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
