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ubuntu 10.04 software raid 0

Layout as of now

Code:

james@xion:~$ sudo fdisk -l

[sudo] password for james: 



Disk /dev/sda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes

255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders

Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes

I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes

Disk identifier: 0x9f659f65



  Device Boot      Start        End      Blocks  Id  System

/dev/sda1              1        9482    76164133+  7  HPFS/NTFS

/dev/sda2            9483        9726    1951744  82  Linux swap / Solaris

/dev/sda3  *        9726      19452    78125056  83  Linux



Disk /dev/sdb: 163.9 GB, 163928604672 bytes

255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19929 cylinders

Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes

I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes

Disk identifier: 0x06e806e8



  Device Boot      Start        End      Blocks  Id  System

Okay this is what I I got going on. on sda1 is my windows partition. sda2-3 is swap and my / parition. Now I have another hardrive installed 160GB and what I want to do is make 2 81GB paritions on sda1 and sdb1 and make those raid 0 for 160 GB for / and 2 GB for swap.

I looked this over
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/In...n/SoftwareRAID

But it suggest that I wipe all data on my hard drive. As much as I want to get rid of windows I still need it. sigh! How could I setup a raid 0 on my linux partitions on a existing system?

Can you create a ntbackup with system state on the windows or windows vista/7 backup first?

Can you use lvm?

My issue with now wanting to use the extra drive for a striped is that the new one is blank. Striped drives should fill in level. This would be easier if you could backup windows for protection then backup linux to apply back to raid.

And at raid 0 a single loss is total loss.

Can you must mount that drive as home or such?

Quote:

Originally Posted by jefro (Post 4541207)

Yes I can do full backup on both systems and transfer the backups to a file server thats no problem.