hello, i have a disk with data on it /dev/hdc, and a brand new empty disk /dev/hdb. want to set up raid 1 without moving data off hdc. it very large and i have no where to put it will this work?: (notice # of devices) mdadm --create --verbose /dev/md0 --level=1 --raid-devices=1 /dev/hdb will this create an unmirrored raid 1 setup? can i start and mount md0? then copy the data from hdb to md0? then?: mdadm /dev/md0 --add /dev/hdc seems too good to be true, maybe you know another way? jd - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html