On Tue, 19 Aug 2003, Rudy Gevaert wrote:
> Hi Alvin, > > 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...). the bios will typically boot off hda or hdb or hdc or hdd - check that the boot sequence inthe bios matches your list of disks and cdrom and fd > My first aim is to put /usr /var /home /data /archive in raid. personally... i prefer "user data" ( /home ) in raid5 ... and rest of the os and system (on a different disk ) is just plain old non-raid - but i have a blank spare disk ready to go in an instant to replace a dead/dying system disk even better to put the data on a whole new box... - 2 different servers for "one server" ( if one dies, or power supply goes bonkers, the other server ( should survive ... along with bad memory faults that erases ( disks free of charge when e2fscsk tries to clean up your disk ( due to what it thinks are bad inodes in its bad memory > /data and /archive are already in raid (without data, that data is on > an other machine). only if its partition type is "FD" .. otherwise its not > 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 assuming that /usr and /var are on its own partitions - make sure its "FD" partition type > - make the raid for the /usr and /var > - mount them and put the data back restore from "backup" :-) > - change /etc/fstab > - unmount > - reboot sounds fair ... than start leaving disks disconnected and see what breaks - test each disk .. that you can survive its failure - i say spend the time now to test the "raid setup" now.. vs spending the time later trying to recover lost files from a raid subsystem that wasn't tested properly c ya alvin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]