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From: Jeff Hoffmann <jhoffman@microelectronics.com>
To: Paul Clements <Paul.Clements@SteelEye.com>
Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: RAID 0 -> 1 possible?
Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2004 14:31:09 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <40520FFD.1010702@microcenter.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4051D738.309CB8FE@SteelEye.com>

On 03/12/04 10:28, Paul Clements wrote:
> Well, in that case you just might be able to do it. You'll need to
> shrink your filesystem (if you have one) ala resize2fs or similar. Then
> raidreconf the raid0. Then edit the partition table (there are tools to
> help with this, or just use fdisk very carefully) to shrink the
> partition. Then you can create a new partition and dump the data there.
> Create another similarly sized partition and raid1 them together...

That seems like it would work, but I thought raidreconf was used for adding 
disks to arrays, not making them smaller.  How do you use raidreconf in this manner?

Thanks for your help,

Jeff Hoffmann


      reply	other threads:[~2004-03-12 19:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-03-11 20:44 RAID 0 -> 1 possible? Jeff Hoffmann
2004-03-11 23:03 ` Maarten van den Berg
2004-03-12  5:53 ` Clemens Schwaighofer
2004-03-12 14:44   ` Jeff Hoffmann
2004-03-12 15:28     ` Paul Clements
2004-03-12 19:31       ` Jeff Hoffmann [this message]

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