Re: RAID 1 setup on woody
One last question ... how can use the swap partitions
on both /dev/hda8 and /dev/hdc8? I did _not_ put the
swap partitions in a RAID setup. Should I simply list
both swap partitions in /etc/fstab? Thanks.
Richard
--- Richard Weil <rcweil@yahoo.com> wrote:
> It took a little bit of experimenting, but the basic
> steps you laid out worked. Success!
>
> For anyone else who might want to try this, I found
> I
> had to do two things differently:
>
> 1. I had to use mkraid instead of raidstart to get
> the RAID devices working on /dev/hdc.
>
> 2. After copying root and /boot over to the
> /dev/md1
> and /dev/md0 and following the steps in the howto, I
> couldn't get the system to boot on the RAID -- it
> kept
> booting on /dev/hda. So, after making sure all of
> root
> and boot was on the RAID devices, and updating the
> /etc/fstab and Lilo on the RAID devices, on reboot,
> at
> the Lilo boot prompt, I said "root=/dev/md1" and
> that
> worked -- into the RAID device I went. Then I
> followed
> the other steps of adding the /dev/hda partitions.
>
> Thanks for the help.
>
> Richard
>
> --- Dave Sherohman <esper@sherohman.org> wrote:
> > On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 04:28:46PM -0800, Richard
> > Weil wrote:
> > > Thanks, this is great. A couple of follow-up
> > > questions:
> > >
> > > 1. How do I get to single user mode without
> > rebooting?
> > > (I know I should already know this.)
> >
> > init 1
> >
> > > 2. Do I need to do anything special to copy the
> > > partitions from /dev/hdaX to /dev/mdY? Once I'm
> in
> > > single user mode can I just "cp -R /dev/hdaX
> > > /dev/mdY"?
> >
> > You definitely do _not_ want to just run cp -r;
> that
> > would destroy
> > all of your file ownership and permission
> settings.
> > cp -a is better,
> > since it preserves those, but I'm not sure how
> well
> > it handles links
> > and device files. Not well, I suspect.
> >
> > > - create /mnt/newroot
> > >
> > > - then:
> > >
> > > cd /
> > > find . -xdev | cpio -pm /mnt/newroot
> >
> > This is a much saner option. Personally, I mount
> > the device directly
> > on /mnt, then use:
> >
> > find . -xdev -print0 | cpio -pvdm0 /mnt
> >
> > If the other version came from the HOWTO, I
> suppose
> > it should work,
> > but it could have problems with filenames
> containing
> > spaces or
> > certain other odd characters (prevented by the
> > -print0 / -0). The -d
> > on cpio ensures that leading directories will be
> > created, which is
> > mostly just paranoia in this case, and -v is the
> > ever-popular verbose
> > flag, because I like to see what it's doing.
> >
> > --
> > When we reduce our own liberties to stop
> terrorism,
> > the terrorists
> > have already won. - reverius
> >
> > Innocence is no protection when governments go
> bad.
> > - Tom Swiss
> >
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