After installing drbdX-utils, install module. Then depmod -a. Then configure disks by editing /etc/drbd.conf. On each server: drbdadm create-md r0 drbdadm attach r0 drbdadm syncer r0 drbdadm connect r0 Then on one side: drbdadm -- --overwrite-data-of-peer primary r0 Wait to synchronise.