Am Samstag 13 Oktober 2007 schrieb Beso:
> can i use raid even if i got a single hd and a non raid board?! i think i
> missed this thing. i knew that i could use raid on 2 separate disks of the
> same ammount and only if i had a raid compatible board (with hardware or
> software) but i didn't know that you could use it also on a single disk.

RAID = Redundant Array of Independent Disks. I think this explains that it 
would be nonsense to have raid on a single disk. 

> i tried to copy the system some time ago and found out that there are files
> in /dev and /tmp or /var/tmp that have an enormous dimension. i have left
> them behind and then got an unusable system for some reason. the copy i had
> was from a livecd with the cp -p to preserve ownership and permission.
> for what i know from /dev i have only to get /dev/null and /dev/console and
> let all others devices be created by udev. from /tmp instead i should not
> copy anything and from /var/tmp i should copy only the ccache. are my
> suppositions correct?

Of course, copying /dev/zero is not a good idea on a running system. You will 
wait forever for this task to finish (/dev/zero, remember there comes data 
out of it, endlessly).

You don't have to copy anything of /dev. udev will provide you the solution to 
create a new /dev directory after boot.

LG
Bernhard
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