Re: raid question
Hi Alvin,
On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 01:08:42PM -0700, Alvin Oga wrote:
> > I do not want to boot of it.
>
> okay... another step in raid-land for a later day to setup
I actually got it wrong in my original post: the first disk is on
hdb. hda is a little disk that gets booted (boot and / are mounted on
it). The disks in the raid don't get recognized by the bios. (I have
tried everything...).
My first aim is to put /usr /var /home /data /archive in raid.
/data and /archive are already in raid (without data, that data is on
an other machine).
> > Can't I use ext3 on the raid system?
>
> you can do anything you like to the individual partitions
>
> when you do mkraid /dev/mdo ... ( everything is lost that was previously
> done so there is no point to doing anything outside of "raid commands"
> - if you want to preserve /home ... tar it up before creating
> the raid and do the raid stuff correctlt and than restore from
> tar ...
Ok. I'll do it this way as this is the easiest way, to me.
An other question. When I want to put the /usr and /var in the raid
is it ok if I do it this way:
- boot with linux single
- backup /usr/ and /var and put on e.g. one of the partions already in
raid
- make the raid for the /usr and /var
- mount them and put the data back
- change /etc/fstab
- unmount
- reboot
Thanks for you very usefull help.
Rudy
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