Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2003 05:00:23 +0300 From: Johan Paul <mailing-lists@johanpaul.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Setup of a software RAID-1 to an existing system? Message-ID: <3EF65F37.1080105@johanpaul.com>
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Hi all! This is repost from freebsd-newbies mailing list since this might be a more suitable mailing list for my question. I am pretty new to FreeBSD but thought it might be a nice idea to migrate from a Linux server to a FreeBSD one. My question is regarding software RAID-1 for this FreeBSD box. I have two qually sized IDE hard drives and I installed FreeBSD 4.8 on the other one. Now the question is: can I make a RAID-1 array of these two disks while FreeBSD is installed on the other one (using vinum or other...)? Or how do I get RAID-1 to work on these two disks? FreeBSD got one slice from each disk that occupy the whole disk. Only the first disk is partitioned into 4 pieces (details about the partitions might be unneccesary...?). I've read some of the vinum documentation but it is unclear to me if it is possible to set up a RAID-1 on a running file system - and if my assumptions are correct, that it is impossible, it is unclear to me how to set up this software RAID-1? Regards, Johan Paul
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