on 2/14/2008 10:38 AM Steven Haigh spake the following:
Why not do a software raid with the drives? That way it is constantly up to date instead of a nightly rsync.I have found the issue with this - and now I feel quite dumb.In this box, I keep a second HDD (/dev/hdc) which is mirrored nightly from the primary HDD (/dev/hda). This is an exact copy - initially created via dd, then kept up to date via rsync on a nightly basis. This is so that if the primary HDD fails, I can change the system to use /dev/hdc and be up and running after a reboot/forced power cycle. What was happening is that both /dev/hda3 and /dev/hdc3 have the LABEL=/ - which means it would be a random guess as to which one got mounted. After changing the root=LABEL=/ in grub.conf to root=/dev/hda3, all works perfectly. Man I miss the days when we used device names, not labels ;) --
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