Hi, Only a newbie could ask this question. Guess what, I really am! I have 4 hard drives on my ssytem to store data. currently i use raid5. I am seriously considering using raid1 instead of raid5. But I only need raid1 while data is being initially collected on the server. So I would like to use raid1 (with ext3 format) initially and then convert to standard ext3 drives.if this is possible. i have 4 drives /dev/hda, /dev/hdc, /dev/hde, /dev/hdg What I would like to do is use stage 1) /hda and /hdg as a raid initially and leave /dev/hdc, /dev/hde alone then use stage 2) /hdc and /hdg as a raid and use "/hda as if it were a ext3 drive" then use stage 3) /hde and /hdg as a raid and use "/hda and /hdc as if there were ext3 drives" Now i see easily that I can run at stage3) /dev/md0 -- /hda alone in degraded mode /dev/md1 ---- /hdc alone in degraded mode /dev/md2 --- /hde and /hdg together. if i do raidsetfaulty to /dev/hdg and raidhotremove /dev/hdg each time and add it to the new /dev/md1 and /dev/md2 as I need them. But i would prefer REAL ext3 drives instead of degraded /dev/md0 and /dev/md1 (i think???). In place of /dev/md0 and /dev/md1. So my question is: I s it possible to "convert a degraded raid1 consisting of a single hard drive over to a standard ext3 format drive (ie /dev/md0 is only one drive so can it become ext3) ?" without doing something like rsync of the data on /dev/md0 to a fresh drive "the new /dev/hda" ??? Thanks, Mitchell Laks - 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
