It is possible, but dangerous!! http://togami.com/~warren/guides/remoteraidcrazies/ Have fun! Vincent Van der Kussen System Engineer mobile: +32477293918 direct: +32 3 450 89 88 Vincent.VanderKussen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx BTR Services Groene Hofstraat 31 2850 Boom Belgium www.btr-services.be tel: +32 3 450 89 80 fax: +32 3 450 89 89 - DISCLAIMER - This message contains confidential information and is intended only for redhat-list@xxxxxxxxxxx If you are not redhat-list@xxxxxxxxxx, you should not disseminate, distribute or copy this e-mail. Please notify Vincent.VanderKussen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx immediately by e-mail if you have received this e-mail by mistake and delete this e-mail from your system. E-mail transmission cannot be guaranteed to be secure or error-free as information could be intercepted, corrupted, lost, destroyed, arrive late or incomplete, or contain viruses. Vincent Van der Kussen therefore does not accept liability for any errors or omissions in the contents of this message, which arise as a result of e-mail transmission. If verification is required please request a hard-copy version. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -----Original Message----- From: redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Mike Burger Sent: dinsdag 20 oktober 2009 15:18 To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list Subject: RE: mirroring > It might be possible with software raid. I don't think it would be with > hardware raid because you'd have to delete partitions etc. > > -----Original Message----- > > Hi, > > I have 2 identical disks but I had installed RHEL 4 on first disk only, > i have /boot and / partitions only. Now, i want to have mirror (raid1) > with the 2nd disk. Can i do this without destroying data on the 1st > disk? Is there a good howto out there ? I don't think he can with software raid, either...not with a disk already configured. If I recall correctly, he would have had to create the software raid at install time, and then partition the resulting soft-raid array with /boot and / in order to make this scheme work. -- Mike Burger http://www.bubbanfriends.org Visit the Dog Pound II BBS telnet://dogpound2.citadel.org or http://dogpound2.citadel.org To be notified of updates to the web site, visit: https://www.bubbanfriends.org/mailman/listinfo/site-update or send a blank email message to: site-update-subscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
