Single HDD into soft-RAID?

[Eric Wood]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Richard Hobbs"
> Hello,
>
> I currently have a machine which has a single hard drive, non RAID'd,
> running RH8.0.
>
> I would like to add a second hard drive and turn it into a soft-RAID1
> (mirrored) machine.
>
> Is this possible, or will I have to rebuild the machine, partitioning the
> disk as RAID partitions this time, instead of normal partitions?
>
> If this is possible without repartitioning the hard drive and reinstalling
> redhat, could you let me know how?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Hobbs.

Yes, this article explains how to do it with Fedora.  And on top of that you 
can do this remotely:

http://togami.com/~warren/guides/remoteraidcrazies/

I just wish Warren would finish the HOWTO to explain replacing failed 
drives.

-eric wood