Configuring RAID1 after install

[John Lyon]

On 3/18/06 4:00 PM, "Ewan Mac Mahon" <ewan at macmahon.me.uk> either wrote,
forwarded or quoted:

> OK; presumably you've got one disk at the moment, and you're planning to
> add a second to create the mirror? If this is the case then you install
> the second disk, partition it (optionally) and then create the RAID on
> it, but telling mdadm to create the array in degraded mode (ie create a
> two disk array, but with one disk missing, so only actually using one
> disk).

This is exactly my situation. The boot disk has two partitions, '/' and a
swap.

Shouldn't I create the partitions on the second disk I'm adding to be
exactly like the partitions on the current boot disk?

Also, thanks to both Paul and Ewan for the info!
-- 
John Lyon
Austin TX