From: Phillip Susi <psusi@cfl.rr.com>
To: Berkey B Walker <berk@panix.com>
Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Growing a single disk into a 2 disk raid0
Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2011 13:19:16 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D4308A4.5000800@cfl.rr.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4D4302B6.2090208@panix.com>
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.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-01-28 18:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-01-28 17:17 Growing a single disk into a 2 disk raid0 Phillip Susi
2011-01-28 17:53 ` Berkey B Walker
2011-01-28 18:14 ` John Robinson
2011-01-28 18:29 ` Phillip Susi
2011-01-29 1:38 ` Hank Barta
2011-01-28 18:19 ` Phillip Susi [this message]
2011-01-29 9:10 ` NeilBrown
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