Adding software RAID to installed system

[Dan Shoop]

At 7:48 PM +0100 2/6/07, Fabian Peters wrote:
>Hi Dan,
>
>Am 06.02.2007 um 19:01 schrieb Dan Shoop:
>
>>At 4:39 PM +0100 2/6/07, Fabian Peters wrote:
>
>>>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."
>
>>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.
>
>Ok, the vagueness was all mine then: it is the boot volume I'd like 
>to make part of a RAID1.
>
>>Tiger's RAID works off of volumes, not drives.
>
>Ok, then what's the deal with "the target disk has a single partition"?

Parse that as "the target disk has a single volume". What's the problem there?

>  If it's interested in volumes only, not drives, it shouldn't need to care?

It needs to care since the volume formats are different and the 
partitions are set up differently.

>Anyway, there is only a single partition, so I figure it _should_ work.
>
>>Read diskutil's docs and check the articles at AFP548.com
>
>Well, I read the manpage but it didn't answer my question, neither 
>did I find an article that does. Do you happen to have a link handy?

What *is* the question?
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-dhan

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