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From: Paul Clements <paul.clements@steeleye.com>
To: Robert Heinzmann <Robert.Heinzmann@gmx.net>
Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Migrating from SINGLE DISK to RAID1
Date: Tue, 01 Feb 2005 14:41:20 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <41FFDB60.1040008@steeleye.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <41FFD1F8.3010101@gmx.net>

Hi Robert,

Robert Heinzmann wrote:

> can someone verify if the following statements are true ?
> 
> - It's not possible to simply  convert a existing partition with a 
> filesystem on it to a raid1 mirror set.

If you create a raid1 without a superblock it is possible (although not 
a very common configuration). If you do use a superblock, you'll need to 
shrink your filesystem by 128KB (to be safe) prior to creating the mirror.

--
Paul

  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-02-01 19:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-02-01 19:01 Migrating from SINGLE DISK to RAID1 Robert Heinzmann
2005-02-01 19:34 ` Mike Hardy
2005-02-01 21:40   ` Robert Heinzmann
2005-02-01 23:52   ` Alvin Oga
2005-02-01 19:41 ` Paul Clements [this message]
2005-02-01 22:57 ` berk walker

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