On 5/21/2010 4:37 PM, Benjamin Franz wrote:
On 05/21/2010 02:32 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: [..]
Disk /dev/sdh: 750.1 GB, 750156374016 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 91201 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdh1 1 91201 732572001 fd Linux raid autodetect
These is a backuppc archive with millions of hardlinks that will take forever to copy if I have to do a file-oriented copy onto a different partition size.
You can cheat. Remove partition 1 and use the *entire drive* as a RAID volume (no partition table at all).
But can I change the existing setup to do that without losing the contents? (It's a 3-member raid1 where one member is only added long enough to sync, then removed). And if you raid at the disk level, how do you tell it to reconnect at startup (the equivalent of the FD partition type)?