Moving a server over to a RAID

[Preston Hagar]

On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 10:27 AM, Mike A. Leonetti
<mikealeonetti at gmail.com> wrote:
>  I have a server now that has one drive and is not set up on a RAID
> using Ubuntu 8.04.
>
> What I was going to do was boot with a Linux recovery disc, create a
> RAID1 manually with mdadm on two new drives, and then copy all of the
> data onto that then redo the boot partition.
>
> My question is, when I reboot, will Ubuntu automatically detect the RAID
> for me or are there modules I have to install ahead of time to make sure
> the RAID gets detected? Also, would anybody else handle the situation
> differently :D.
>
> --
> Mike A. Leonetti
> As warm as green tea
>
>

Check out this guide:

http://www.tolaris.com/2008/10/01/moving-your-linux-root-partition-to-raid/

It is for Ubuntu 8.04.  I have followed it many times with much success.

Preston