From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jun 22 21:04:50 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 DB3EE37B401 for ; Sun, 22 Jun 2003 21:04:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F77B43FAF for ; Sun, 22 Jun 2003 21:04:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 284855269E; Mon, 23 Jun 2003 13:35:41 +0930 (CST) Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2003 13:35:41 +0930 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: Johan Paul Message-ID: <20030623040541.GI93137@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <3EF65F37.1080105@johanpaul.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="j85S6sJewUjCM/cp" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3EF65F37.1080105@johanpaul.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 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 04:04:51 -0000 --j85S6sJewUjCM/cp Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Monday, 23 June 2003 at 5:00:23 +0300, Johan Paul wrote: > 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? You might like to take a look at http://www.vinumvm.org/cfbsd/vinum.pdf or http://www.vinumvm.org/cfbsd/vinum.txt. This is the Vinum chapter from "The Complete FreeBSD". Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply or reply to the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address and phone numbers --j85S6sJewUjCM/cp Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE+9nyVIubykFB6QiMRApfUAJ9t1ykYtbSeMP2f4dpwjzRnpBc2JgCgos3x yKCuA97JPGYNOv01OEArg4s= =siSU -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --j85S6sJewUjCM/cp--