Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2003 13:56:19 +0930 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> To: "Axel S. Gruner" <grunix@bsdforen.de> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: software raid on freebsd5 Message-ID: <20030430042619.GH23237@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <20030429184451.5da6053e.grunix@bsdforen.de> References: <20030429184451.5da6053e.grunix@bsdforen.de>
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--tT3UgwmDxwvOMqfu Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Tuesday, 29 April 2003 at 18:44:51 +0200, Axel S. Gruner wrote: > Hi. > > I want to use software raid 5 on my freebsd 5 box. So, i am running > freebsd 5 for a while, and have a lot of ports installed, and i dont > want to erase all the stuff, is there a way to setup vinum or > raidctl on that box? You can't change an existing linear partition to RAID-5 and keep the data. > i have 3 harddrives installed, 2 of them are totally clean, 1 is > running FreeBSD. And, is it possible in the future, to put on or > two more devices to that raid? With a lot of trickery, you could do that, but you'd be better off borrowing a fourth disk to copy the data to, and then move the contents of one of them back to the first disk after you've copied the data. 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 --tT3UgwmDxwvOMqfu Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE+r1BrIubykFB6QiMRAp3rAKCvRzYmbm6P0ctgI+PYOdGbdU6fAQCfbYrD Fcf+xdYxN1svxkpkqDVLTh0= =nRQv -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --tT3UgwmDxwvOMqfu--
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