From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 29 21:26:23 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 8067537B401 for ; Tue, 29 Apr 2003 21:26:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CD37043FBF for ; Tue, 29 Apr 2003 21:26:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id D0E9A51A78; Wed, 30 Apr 2003 13:56:19 +0930 (CST) Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2003 13:56:19 +0930 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: "Axel S. Gruner" Message-ID: <20030430042619.GH23237@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <20030429184451.5da6053e.grunix@bsdforen.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="tT3UgwmDxwvOMqfu" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030429184451.5da6053e.grunix@bsdforen.de> 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: software raid on freebsd5 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: Wed, 30 Apr 2003 04:26:23 -0000 --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--