My System 76 laptop (Ubuntu 14.04) has two mirrored SSDs, and it works flawlessly.
Mark On Sun, Nov 30, 2014 at 4:17 PM, Paul Heinlein <heinl...@madboa.com> wrote: > On Sun, 30 Nov 2014, Chaz Sliger wrote: > > I'll be using Ubuntu. >> Actually Mint which uses the latest Ubuntu LTS release. >> I believe Mint would use whatever Ubuntu provides for mirroring. >> > > OK. The steps are, roughly, > > 1. Use the installer to partition the drives identically. I typically > create three partitions: /boot, swap, and / (root partition), but > I know some people like to carve out separate filesystems for /srv, > /home, /var, etc. > > 2. As you create the partitions, mark them with id 'fd' (Linux > raid autodetect). > > 3. Choose to create a metadevice of type RAID-1. Build your > filesystem on top of that. > > I know the steps are not quite that simple, but that's the best I can do > from memory. It's very achievable, however, and I suspect you'll be able to > figure it out. > > (I assume you have two drives of the same size...) > > > -- > Paul Heinlein > heinl...@madboa.com > 45°38' N, 122°6' W > > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
