Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.
On Don, 2010-04-29 at 09:35 +0100, Joao Ferreira gmail wrote:
> can I "install" drbd on an existing ext3 formated partition that already
> contains data written on it ?
If you do that, you will overwrite all the data (and the filesystem as
such).
> or does the drbd setup process force me to start with a raw unformated
> partition ?
That's the case.
A usual workaround is to create a degenerated cluster and move the files
to the degenerated DRBD device. And then lets the original one resync
it.
Bernd
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