<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 10/11/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">John Drescher</b> <<a href="mailto:drescherjm@gmail.com">drescherjm@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
> Create a raid 1 array (using mdadm) with a missing disk then copy the<br>> data using the rsync command above. Then modify your system to boot<br>> off the raid1 array. Then when all this works add the original disk
<br>> to the raid array using mdadm.<br>><br>The original step should have said "create the raid 1 array using the<br>new disk and a missing disk using mdadm"<br><br>John<br></blockquote></div><br>
<br>Ok, I think I understand. However, I currently have a 40GB drive that contains the system, and an 80GB
drive I'd like to add. Can I create two 40GB partitions
on the 80GB drive and use just one of them as the new "disk" for the
Raid-1?<br><br>