From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Jeff Hoffmann <jhoffman@microelectronics.com>
Subject: Re: RAID 0 -> 1 possible?
Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2004 14:31:09 -0500
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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