Adding software RAID to installed system

[Dan Shoop]

At 4:39 PM +0100 2/6/07, Fabian Peters wrote:
>Hi folks,
>
>Has anybody successfully created a RAID1 without erasing the 
>existing boot disk (possibly even w/o rebooting?) on OS X Server 
>10.4? Apple's "Getting Started" guide states it's ok:
>
>"If the target disk has a single partition and the second physical 
>drive has a single partition and no data, you can set up RAID 
>mirroring after installation."
>
>Which I figure is what I'd like to do but I feel the wording is a 
>bit vague. Of course in any case the usual caveats to back up 
>beforehand do apply...

You don't have to touch the boot disk to use RAID at all so I'm a bit 
confused by your question, unless it was the boot disk you were 
interested in converting to a RAID1 volume.

Tiger's RAID works off of volumes, not drives.

Read diskutil's docs and check the articles at AFP548.com
-- 

-dhan

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