On Tue, Sep 11, 2001 at 12:16:52PM +0300 or thereabouts, George Karaolides wrote: > > Easy. First mount /dev/md0 somewhere remporary like /mnt, then do > > root# tar cplf - -C / . | tar xvpf - -C /mnt > > the "l" option will make sure tar only archives the local root filesystem, > not mounted filesystems. This takes care of /proc as well. > i see. i've been using the "--exclude-from FILE" option of tar to avoid copying /proc and /mnt itself.
> Check that the /tmp permissions are 1777, which will break the manpages
> among other things; I seem to recall they were changed once when I did
> this, though it might have been me forgetting to include the "p" option to
> tar.
>
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> With /boot on one disk and everything else on RAID1, your system will
> survive a disk crash but if the disk that died was the one with /boot on
> it, you won't be able to reboot. It's not too hard to put /boot in a
> RAID1 as well.
>
why is that? isn't that with raid1 (mirroring) all contents of hd1 gets
copied to hd2 including /boot?
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