Mike Frisch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > If the drives are the same size, the following command works very well to
> > copy a partition table from one to the other:
> > dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb bs=1024 count=5
> I am curious to know if this can help in creating a RAID1 mirror from an
> existi
> On Thu, 8 Jul 1999, Brian Leeper wrote:
> > If the drives are the same size, the following command works very well to
> > copy a partition table from one to the other:
> >
> > dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb bs=1024 count=5
> I am curious to know if this can help in creating a RAID1 mirror from an
>
On Thu, 8 Jul 1999, Brian Leeper wrote:
> If the drives are the same size, the following command works very well to
> copy a partition table from one to the other:
>
> dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb bs=1024 count=5
I am curious to know if this can help in creating a RAID1 mirror from an
existing si
On Thu, 8 Jul 1999, Jochen Scharrlach wrote:
> - duplicating a partition layout is much easier :)
If the drives are the same size, the following command works very well to
copy a partition table from one to the other:
dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb bs=1024 count=5
I'm not even sure the count need
On Thu, 08 Jul 1999, Mike Frisch wrote:
> far, so good. I still don't have it shutting down properly and
> automatically being brought up at boot-time, which is still a little bit
> of a pain.
If you're running RedHat 6.0 their /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit is wrong. It
uses the old raidtools commands.
Mike Frisch writes:
> > - duplicating a partition layout is much easier :)
>
> Does this mean it's possible to build a RAID1 configuration from a single
> disk without having to reformat?
What I meant was, that I can read the partition table with
"disklabel", modify it a bit and write it on
On Thu, 8 Jul 1999, Jochen Scharrlach wrote:
> - it seems to have more features, though I'm missing a concept for a
> mirrored root partition (it may be there, but I haven't found anything
> yet). The commandline tool is quite nice and it even has some kind of
> logical volume manager (though I'
Mike Frisch writes:
> Looks pretty interesting, but I am not a FBSD user, so I have no idea
> how functional, robust, etc. it is. All I can say is that Linux
> software RAID needs some decent documentation like this.
In the past I was setting up 4 servers using Linux-RAID1:
- 2 with the ol
In case anybody is interested, there's the website describing software
RAID on FreeBSD:
http://www.lemis.com/vinum/
Looks pretty interesting, but I am not a FBSD user, so I have no idea
how functional, robust, etc. it is. All I can say is that Linux
software RAID needs some decent documentatio
