Iulian Badea wrote: > Hello all, > > I have 2 x 250GB sata disks (sda and sdb). > > # fdisk -l /dev/sda > > Disk /dev/sda: 250.0 GB, 250059350016 bytes > 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders > Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes > > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System > /dev/sda1 * 1 14939 119997486 fd Linux raid > autodetect > /dev/sda2 14940 29878 119997517+ fd Linux raid > autodetect > /dev/sda3 29879 30400 4192965 fd Linux raid > autodetect > > # fdisk -l /dev/sdb > > Disk /dev/sdb: 250.0 GB, 250059350016 bytes > 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders > Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes > > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System > /dev/sdb1 * 1 522 4192933+ fd Linux raid > autodetect > > # cat /proc/mdstat > Personalities : [raid1] > md2 : active raid1 sdb1[1] sda3[0] > 4192832 blocks [2/2] [UU] > > md1 : active raid1 sda2[1] sda1[0] > 119997376 blocks [2/2] [UU] > > What I want to do: > - have on each disk 2 partitions (4gb for swap and the 200gb+ the rest for > /) > - raid 1 between them > > This is what I wanted in the beginning, but...I didn't paid attention... > > What can I do to rebuild it to my needs (without loosing data or > reformatting)? > ouch. I'd boot a rescue CD, drop the mirrors, repartition and mkfs on sdb1, dump both file systems to it, drop both metadisks, repartition sda1 as 2 x raid1 w/o any active mirrors, mkfs on them, restore the dumps to these new md0, md1, then repartition sdb again as the two mirrors and join them to md0, md1 but thats just me. others might do it differently.