On Sun, 11 Feb 2007 09:59:29 +0300, Michael Tokarev wrote: > Marco Scoffier wrote: >> Hello all, >> >> I have an old raid0 with no superblocks. >> > Well, mdadm is able to assemble it. It's called 'build' (--build) -- > > mdadm --build -n 2 -c 128 -l 0 /dev/md0 /dev/hde1 /dev/hdg1 > Thanks for the clarification Micheal. Reading the docs, I got a little confused about what --build was for. >> or should I build a new raid0 and then upgrade that to a raid0 with >> superblocks (how would I do that?) > > I think the best option is to convert it to raid0-with-superblocks. For > that, I'd go this route: > > - build the array as above > - fsck the filesystem on it > - resize the filesystem to be, say, 1Mb smaller - stop the array - > create new array as you've shown above with -C - and finally resize > the filesystem to utilize all available space > Thanks for these steps. I am running them now. Thanks for an amazingly fast and clear response. -- Marco - 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
