From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jun 22 19:00:26 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C2E6E37B401 for ; Sun, 22 Jun 2003 19:00:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from tonnikala.nettikala.fi (tonnikala.nettikala.fi [212.182.218.250]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A68343FA3 for ; Sun, 22 Jun 2003 19:00:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mailing-lists@johanpaul.com) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by tonnikala.nettikala.fi (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC1D6420051 for ; Mon, 23 Jun 2003 05:00:24 +0300 (EEST) Received: by tonnikala.nettikala.fi (Postfix, from userid 612) id 9CB20420052; Mon, 23 Jun 2003 05:00:24 +0300 (EEST) Received: from johanpaul.com (tellus.milkyway [10.0.42.1]) by tonnikala.nettikala.fi (Postfix) with ESMTP id 004F1420051 for ; Mon, 23 Jun 2003 05:00:23 +0300 (EEST) Message-ID: <3EF65F37.1080105@johanpaul.com> Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2003 05:00:23 +0300 From: Johan Paul User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030529 X-Accept-Language: fi, en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-0.8 required=7.0 tests=SPAM_PHRASE_01_02,USER_AGENT,USER_AGENT_MOZILLA_UA, X_ACCEPT_LANG version=2.43-cvs X-Spam-Level: X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS snapshot-20020531 Subject: Setup of a software RAID-1 to an existing system? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2003 02:00:27 -0000 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