[DRBD-user] formatting of drbd partition

khaja mohideen skm_mail at yahoo.com
Thu Aug 31 13:09:54 CEST 2006

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Hi,

  What would happen if i mount the 100 GB
partition(/dev/hda1) without formatting as /dev/drbd0.

   In slave I would allocate the exact 100 GB size for
drbd.


  Then would it solve.


  Any help


SKM






--- Milind Dumbare <milind at linsyssoft.com> wrote:

> 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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