Friday, September 25, 2009

Converting Debian from a single disk to RAID1

I've needed this often enough and stumbled through it; here's a link to a guide for converting a Debian install to a software RAID1 install.

http://www.ctunion.com/node/178

I used it for tips after I was already halfway through, so I don't know how accurate the guide is as a whole. The section dealing with creating a new initrd was close enough for me, but they refer to mkinitrd instead of mkinitramfs that is included in the squeeze initramfs-tools package.