<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 10/11/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Marc</b> <<a href="mailto:drayson@net1plus.com">drayson@net1plus.com</a>> wrote:</span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Alternately you can follow this..<br><br>Create temporary mount points for the new drives partitions:<br># mkdir /mnt/part1<br><br>Mount the new partition:<br># mount /dev/Xda1 /mnt/part1<br><br>Migrate the data (the -x flag forces rsync to stay on the same source
<br>partition when recursing through directories):<br># rsync -avH --progress -x / /mnt/part1<br><br>If the system wasn't previously in single user mode, move to single user<br>mode and update the data that changed during the first copy:
<br>(--delete flag tells rsync to delete files from the destination which do not<br>exist on the source):<br># rsync -avH --delete --progress -x / /mnt/part1<br><br>Modified from documentation on how to migrate from a single disk config to a
<br>RAID-1 config.<br><br>Marc<br><br><br></blockquote></div>I have been searching for just such "documentation" (I want to migrate from single disk to RAID-1) but haven't found it. Can you please point me to it?
<br><br>Many thanks-<br>