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From: Robin Hill <robin@robinhill.me.uk>
Subject: Re: Converting system to raid
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2009 14:22:33 +0100
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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.
>=20
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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