On 1/28/2011 12:53 PM, Berkey B Walker wrote: > Because 1) I'm old, and 2) I don't trust documentation, I do it the > slow, easy way. I use the blank disk and make a RAID missing a disk. I > then copy the data to the RAIDed disk. If everything is OK, zero out > the old data disk and add it to the raid (filling the "missing"). I do > it this way any time I want to make raid of a disk full of data, to > any level of raid. That works for raid1, but as I said, mdadm will not let you create a single disk raid0. -- 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