Re: Converting system to raid

["Timothy D. Lenz" <tlenz@vorgon.com>]

How can cp not work? every guide I found used ether cp or rsync. Even guides on seting up an auto backup system use cp or rsync.
Seems the only files/folders that shouldn't get copied are the block device ones that are created at boot and are not really on the
drive.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Robin Hill" <robin@robinhill.me.uk>
To: <linux-raid@vger.kernel.org>
Sent: Friday, April 10, 2009 6:22 AM
Subject: Re: Converting system to raid

On Thu Apr 09, 2009 at 04:44:25PM -0700, Timothy D. Lenz wrote:

> I used "sudo cp -axu / /mnt/md0" to copy hda to md0. I changed
> /mnt/md0/etc/fstab so that "/" os /md0 instead of /hda.
>
This won't work properly, for a start.  You _cannot_ copy a running
system - there's bound to be data which hasn't yet been flushed to disk,
as well as locked files.  You need to boot off a CD (or another
partition) and do the copy from there.

HTH,
    Robin
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