Date: Sun, 22 Jun 2003 19:19:41 -0700 From: Joshua Oreman <oremanj@webserver.get-linux.org> To: Johan Paul <mailing-lists@johanpaul.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Setup of a software RAID-1 to an existing system? Message-ID: <20030623021941.GA3165@webserver.get-linux.org> In-Reply-To: <3EF65F37.1080105@johanpaul.com> References: <3EF65F37.1080105@johanpaul.com>
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On Mon, Jun 23, 2003 at 05:00:23AM +0300 or thereabouts, Johan Paul seemed to write: > Hi all! > > This is repost from freebsd-newbies mailing list since this might be a > more suitable mailing list for my question. You're right, it is. > > 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? I would read the "Bootstrapping Vinum" article in the FreeBSD Documentation Set. Alternative is just backup your data, boot from the Fixit CDROM, run vinum, restore. -- Josh > > > Regards, > > Johan Paul > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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