Re: Swapping Hard Drives on the fly

[Damon Muller <damon@emprie.net.au>]

Greets,

> If you wanted a hot-swappable setup, you might try setting up some sort of
> ramdisk root fs with the ide driver compiled as a module and all your
> important
> stuff (/usr, /var etc) mounted off your ide drive, you could then drop to
> single
> user mode, umount the ide devices, rmmod the driver and maybe have a chance.

Maybe I neglected to mention that it isn't actually the boot device. I
have /dev/hdc1 mounted as /usr/local/rem, set as 'noauto' in /etc/fstab,
so it's not as if it should actually be trying to read or write to it
anyway, should it?

damon

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