Software raid

[Aaron Grewell]

Nope.  As long as one of the potential mirrors is empty you can build
the RAID in 'degraded mode' which means it only has 1 partition.  You
then copy the data over to the RAID, make sure it works, and include the
old data parition in the RAID.  In fact, I think somebody wrote a SxS on
this.  Oops, was that a plug? ;)

http://linux-sxs.org/storage/raid_setup.html

On Fri, 2004-01-30 at 22:33, Ted Ozolins wrote:
> Before I totally mess things up, in order to use 
> software raid (raid 1)
> do I have to select the partitions as a raid 
> before the install? I have
> two identical drives with 50 megs at the begining 
> of each drive for /boot . Do I have to start over 
> with fdisk and redo the install? Do I
> sound rather confused, that s because right now I 
> am:) Any pointers info
> rtfm welcome
> 
> Cheers