> okay, i setup this one from my own dev-box when I was doing a lot of > reinstalls on my only machine that then did everything from serving to > compiletesting things. However, it might be at least somewhat relevant > and something to start with: > > > http://dev.gentoo.org/~spider/migration-guide.html > > > copying passwd, shadow group verbatim is a bad idea, i'd suggest using > vipw to just copy the relevant lines instead of it all, since the > "core" system things may differ.
Very cool info spider, thanks a lot! > as for the raid , here's a pretty good guide that I fall back to > whenever I feel mixed up about it : > > http://www.pcguide.com/ref/hdd/perf/raid/levels/multXY-c.html More info to read through :) My current setup (with disks with multiple partitions belonging to different raid arrays) helped to save my butt a couple of times when I had filesystem or raid curruption. Even though hde4 was bad, and knocked out my md1 (and something in the filesystem messed up and nuked it), I could still use md0 which had hde3 as part of it. My concern is going to a more sane seeming method of each disk having only one partition for a raid array is that I'd lose this little extra barrier of protection. Of course, as others would say, "you don't run a system on known bad harddrives" :) One other question about the system set up (not so much the RAID setup) is how to best configure partitions. On my home system I have one drive with hda1 being 10m for /boot, a small swap partition, and the rest for / and /usr and /var. I guess having a big-ass 4disk RAID-N array (5 or 10 or 01 or whatever is best) created from disks partitions as such: hda1 = 10m /boot hda2 = 500m swap hda3 = raid autodetect hdb1 = 10m /boot mirror hdb3 = 500m swap (striping swap is fun) hdb3 = raid autodetect and so on would be a sane setup? It's a bit hokey looking to me somehow, but I can't say why. Maybe I should ask people to post their production server with raid partitioning setups? :) How is gentoo.org partitioned and set up gentoo devs? alan -- Alan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - http://arcterex.net -------------------------------------------------------------------- "There are only 3 real sports: bull-fighting, car racing and mountain climbing. All the others are mere games." -- Hemingway
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