On 6/14/05, Ravi Kumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 6/13/05, Siju George <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I would like to implement Disk mirroring ( Raid1 ) in Debian Sarge. > > I don't know if it is possible during installation in sarge. In redhat > (Fedora to be specific), I have implemented software raid during > installation which is very easy. >
In Sarge the installer shows an option to configure RAID but I am not able to figureout how to go about it :-( > > Is it possible to configure it while installation if I have both hard > > disks attached?? > By the word attached ; are you meaning mounted? (You have to unmount > it I guess) or do you mean that hard disks are attached physically but > not mounted (can be done). > yes you are right :-) hard disks just attached not mounted. > > Could someone please tell me what is the easiest way ( steps ) to get > > this done??? > > You can implement mirroring after installation if you have raidtools > installed on your machine. > Do you mean I have to install http://packages.debian.org/stable/admin/raidtools2 after Sarge installation to have RAID 1setup with 2 disks??? >Open up fdisk and see if the partition type > is set to raid auto - 0xfd to be exact. > partitio type of which Disk?? 1st one or second one or both?? Actually I have two hard disks 40 GB each! I want to have RAID 1 including the / partition and boot loader ( GRUB ). ie if one hard disk goes down I should be able to boot from the other one. I want to have the following partitions in both the hard disk / - 500 MB - Primary swap - 2 GB - Primary /usr - 5 GB - Primary /home - 500 MB - Logical /tmp - 5 GB - Logical /var/log - 5 GB -logical /var - rest of the disk - logical I prefer ext3 or ReiserFS for file systems. So should I create the same partitions on the second disk and mark each raid auto?? Thankyou so much for the help and steps :-) Kind Regards Siju ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: NEC IT Guy Games. How far can you shotput a projector? How fast can you ride your desk chair down the office luge track? If you want to score the big prize, get to know the little guy. Play to win an NEC 61" plasma display: http://www.necitguy.com/?r _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
