Jack Howarth wrote: > Roberto, > How about the protocol I posted at... > > https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2006-March/msg04350.html [...] > My understanding is that I can avoid the resizing issue with the RAID-1 > conversion using the approach of creating the RAID partitions on the second > drive and copying the data over to them. Once I can boot from the second > drive using the md partitions I can use the partitions on the first drive > as spares and not worry about the resizing issue. > Jack Your protocol is good too, the difference is that with your method: - disadvantage: you have an extra total file copy, so it takes time (copying many small files is much slower than syncing the RAID-1) - advantage: you defrag the data - disadvantage: you have to be careful with tar flags and you will never get a perfectly identical copy (atime, mtime, ctime could be modified) Let's say that you're not really converting to RAID-1, you're copying everything to your new RAID-1 and then adding your old partitions to the RAID-1. Your protocol also explains the issues related to grub, mkinit, which I left out, but are certainly important if you're doing the operation on your root partition. Best regards. -- Roberto Ragusa mail at robertoragusa.it
