From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ovidio Borrero Subject: Mdadm Live data conversion Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2008 11:19:14 -0700 Message-ID: <487B98A2.7080904@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids Greetings, I posted this on linux forums and was hoping to see what kind of responce i could get but they recommended emailing you guys. I apologize if i shouldnt be emailing you, but here's my question: "Well i know in windows i can convert the live drive to a dynamic drive, and then create the raid in just a few simple steps, but how can i do this in linux? is it possible to convert the hard drive fs type to to fd? how can i make sda2 and sdb2 into md0? is this possible? heres my current fdisk output: Disk /dev/sda: 33.5 GB, 33554497536 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4079 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Disk identifier: 0x0005816c Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 1 25 200781 83 Linux /dev/sda2 26 4079 32563755 8e Linux LVM Disk /dev/sdb: 33.5 GB, 33554497536 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4079 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Disk identifier: 0xf3fa89fb Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdb1 1 25 200781 fd Linux raid autodetect /dev/sdb2 26 4079 32563755 fd Linux raid autodetect"