2005/8/9, Christopher Smith <csmith@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > Shaun Jackman wrote: > > I have a single non-RAID SATA drive with Debian (Sarge) installed and > > data on it. I also have a duplicate blank drive. I would like to > > migrate from my non-RAID system to a RAID-1 (mirrored) system for > > redundancy, with each disk being an exact duplicate of the other. Is > > it possible to do this without having to wipe the first drive clean? > > I'd appreciate a pointer to a HOWTO or recipe if it answers this > > specific question. > > This should get you started: > > http://xtronics.com/reference/SATA-RAID-debian-for-2.6.html Amazing! Thanks for the tip, Christopher. The document [1] you mentioned is an absolute must-read for anyone migrating from a non-RAID to RAID-1 storage system. The document's title suggests it's Debian specific, but the vast majority of it is distribution agnostic. It's up to date, using the modern mdadm tool; many documents I read still referred to raidtools. The migration process went quite flawlessly! Thanks to all those that helped. Cheers, Shaun [1] Installing Debian with SATA based RAID http://xtronics.com/reference/SATA-RAID-debian-for-2.6.html - 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
