Re: Recipe for Mirrored OS Drives

2006-10-03 Thread Nix
On Tue, 03 Oct 2006, David Greaves prattled cheerily: > FYI I've done quite a bit on the Howto section: > http://linux-raid.osdl.org/index.php/Overview Ka wow. > It still needs a lot of work I think but it's getting there... Yeah: the `booting on RAID' and RAID_Boot could be merged, and it certa

Re: Recipe for Mirrored OS Drives

2006-10-03 Thread David Greaves
Nix wrote: > On 2 Oct 2006, David Greaves spake: >> I suggest you link from http://linux-raid.osdl.org/index.php/RAID_Boot > > The pages don't really have the same purpose. RAID_Boot is `how to boot > your RAID system using initramfs'; this is `how to set up a RAID system > in the first place', i.

Re: Recipe for Mirrored OS Drives

2006-10-03 Thread Erik Mouw
On Sun, Oct 01, 2006 at 07:45:46PM -0400, andy liebman wrote: > -- Run rsync to copy contents from your existing OS drive > > rsync -av /mnt/oldroot /mnt/newroot > rsync -av /mnt/oldhome /mnt/newhome At least add the -H flag to copy hardlinks. -S for sparse files might also be use

Re: Recipe for Mirrored OS Drives

2006-10-02 Thread Nix
On 2 Oct 2006, David Greaves spake: > I suggest you link from http://linux-raid.osdl.org/index.php/RAID_Boot The pages don't really have the same purpose. RAID_Boot is `how to boot your RAID system using initramfs'; this is `how to set up a RAID system in the first place', i.e., setup. I'll give

Re: Recipe for Mirrored OS Drives

2006-10-02 Thread David Greaves
andy liebman wrote: > >> >> Feel free to add it here: >> http://linux-raid.osdl.org/index.php/Main_Page >> >> I haven't been able to do much for a few weeks (typical - I find some >> time and >> use it all up just getting the basic setup done - still it's started!) >> >> David >> > > Any hints on

Re: Recipe for Mirrored OS Drives

2006-10-02 Thread andy liebman
Feel free to add it here: http://linux-raid.osdl.org/index.php/Main_Page I haven't been able to do much for a few weeks (typical - I find some time and use it all up just getting the basic setup done - still it's started!) David Any hints on how to add a page? Andy - To unsubscribe from t

Re: Recipe for Mirrored OS Drives

2006-10-02 Thread David Greaves
andy liebman wrote: > A few weeks ago, I promised that I would put my "recipe" here for > creating "mirrored OS drives from an existing OS Drive". This "recipe" > combines what I learned from MANY OTHER sometimes conflicting documents > on the same subject -- documents that were probably developed

Recipe for Mirrored OS Drives

2006-10-01 Thread andy liebman
A few weeks ago, I promised that I would put my "recipe" here for creating "mirrored OS drives from an existing OS Drive". This "recipe" combines what I learned from MANY OTHER sometimes conflicting documents on the same subject -- documents that were probably developed for earlier kernels and