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Hi people.

Current Circunstances:

I am currently using opensuse 11.1 in a desktop PC over a hdd of 160 Gb which is getting tiny.
I am happy with opensuse and i want to move the OS to another disk.
Also i will live in Germany in 2 Months and i cant ship me desktop with me, but there i will buy a good Laptop.

That is why buyed a new 750 Gb disk and before i go to G. i will sell my desktop with the 160Gb disk.

Now i want to copy the whole system to this bigger disk and in Germany copy all again to the laptop disk.

My system is partitioned in the next way:
boot ~ 200M
swap ~ 2G
LVM ~ 60G
LVM ~ 60G
root ~ 10G
home rest
in LVM there is only 1 lv of important data.

Because i have now 2 disks that i want to keep in sync, i need the next partition table to be using raid-1 and here is the problem.


I understand that raid-1 is mirroring and doesnt need or requires more than 1 disk to work, but i cant find a way to create the new disk with raid-1, and after being copyed all data, format the 160 Gb disk to be in the same raid.

To create the raid all tools requires 2 partitions to be added.
But i need to backup first and then add the second disk.

¿How can i make this to work without buying another disk?

thanks