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Linux RAID1 with only One disk

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Mar 15, 20265859 views
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I have a hypothetical situation in which I installed my operating system using a RAID1 mirror. At some point I decided that this setup was overkill, my machine isn't system critical, I value doubling my storage space more than speedy recovery, I'm doing routine backups, etc... Short of backing up m…

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Fix for: Linux RAID1 with only One disk

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You can set the number of disks in a RAID-1 array to whatever you want (well, any positive integer), including 1. Simply remove all but the one component you want to keep with , then set the number of components to 1: By the way, conversely, if you …

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