create raid1 on a installed system

[Asif Iqbal]

On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 7:52 PM, Brian McKee<brian.mckee at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 6:29 PM, Asif Iqbal<vadud3 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I have two disks on my x2100, sda and sdb, both are 80GB. I installed
>> jaunty server on sdb1.
>>
>> How do I now create software raid1 short of reinstalling the OS on
>> software raid disk md0  ?
>
> Create the raid on sda1 with the other disk 'missing'
> Copy sdb1 to md0, remove sdb altogether and reboot to md0, and test to
> make sure you got it right, then reformat sdb and add it to the
> degraded array.

Thanks. That is what I was looking for.

>
> This might be helpful
> http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/238
>
> Brian
>
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