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)?
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