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2014 Jul 25
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Convert "bare partition" to RAID1 / mdadm?
...d remount as SW RAID1?
I'm not trying to move over the O/S, just a data paritition with LOTS of 
data. So far, Google pounding has resulted in howtos like this one 
that's otherwise quite useful, but has a big "copy all your data over" 
step I'd like to skip:
http://sysadmin.compxtreme.ro/how-to-migrate-a-single-disk-linux-system-to-software-raid1/
But it would seem to me that a sequence roughly like this should work 
without having to recopy all the files.
1) umount /var/data;
2) parted /dev/sdX
     (change type to fd - Linux RAID auto)
3) Set some volume parameters so it'...