Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.
On 2010-04-29 10:38, Bernd Petrovitsch wrote: > 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). Nope. Resize that filesystem with resize2fs to make room for your DRBD metadata, then once that is done create the metadata locally, then create the metadata on a fresh partition on the peer node, and do an initial sync. >> or does the drbd setup process force me to start with a raw unformated >> partition ? > > That's the case. Nope. Care to sign up for DRBD training? :) Florian -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 260 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://lists.linbit.com/pipermail/drbd-user/attachments/20100429/b5f4d4c8/attachment.pgp>