From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Oct 31 18:33:55 2004 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 82F2616A4CE for ; Sun, 31 Oct 2004 18:33:55 +0000 (GMT) Received: from allrounder.lame.at (mail.softlink.at [195.58.166.252]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 38FB343D1D for ; Sun, 31 Oct 2004 18:33:55 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from haimat@lame.at) Received: from itchy (home.lame.at [80.78.254.138]) (using TLSv1 with cipher RC4-MD5 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by allrounder.lame.at (Postfix) with ESMTP id 22E372FE87 for ; Sun, 31 Oct 2004 19:33:17 +0100 (CET) From: "Matthias F. Brandstetter" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2004 20:33:52 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200410311933.52768.haimat@lame.at> Subject: how to convert a non-RAID system to gmirror? 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: Sun, 31 Oct 2004 18:33:55 -0000 Hi all, I have two disk ad0 and ad2. FreeBSD 5.3 is installed on ad0, I can boot from it. Now I want to create a software RAID via gmirror with ad2. My question is: how can I create the array with the spare disk so that I can reboot from it without loosing any data or reinstall the whole system? Hope you can help me on this... Greetings and TIA, Matthias -- Who spread garbage all over Flanders's yard before I got a chance to? -- Homer Simpson Two Dozen and One Greyhounds