[DRBD-user] formatting of drbd partition

Milind Dumbare milind at linsyssoft.com
Thu Aug 31 12:48:25 CEST 2006

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On Thu, 2006-08-31 at 03:34 -0700, khaja mohideen wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>    I have partition 100 GB size. Do i need to format
> this partition once i installed & mount as /dev/drbd0
> device. 
> 
>    Currently it contains 80 GB of data. So backing &
> restoring would be a painful job.  Can drbd be used
> without formatting it.
> 
> 
I think using external volume for metadata in configuration 
can help you out. 

>   Pls Help.
> 
> 
> SKM
> 
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