On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 06:12:32PM -0500, Bill Davidsen wrote: > I have three drives, with some various partitions, currently set up like > this. > > drive0 drive1 drive2 > > hdb1 hdi1 hdk1 > \_________RAID1________/ > > hdb2 hdi2 hdk2 > unused \___RAID0____/ > 200GB 100GB x 2 > > hdi3 hdk3 > \___unused___/ > 100GB x 2 > > What I want to have is 3 x 200 = 400GB RAID5. > > I would like to avoid copying 200GB of data to another machine and back Can't you do the following: * copy the data from raid0 to hdb2 ( raid0 <= hdb2 you can even do a dd) * degrade raid1 to only contain drive0 * since you have all your data on drive0, wipe drive1 and drive2 clean, create a degraded raid5 * copy stuff from drive0 to the new array (enw fs as well I presume) * resync the raid5 with drive0 - 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
