Ohh sorry, I think you must create a new root partition for mirroring old one. Do you know how to do that? Thanks, Edward. Philippe Trolliet wrote: > > hello, > i marked the root disk as failed disk, but it doesn�t work. > thanks > regaords > ph. trolliet > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of > Edward Shushkin > Sent: Dienstag, 24. April 2001 15:05 > To: Philippe Trolliet > Subject: Re: > > Philippe Trolliet wrote: > > > > hello, > > i want to setup raid 1 on a PC with suse linux 7.0 and its kernel 2.2.16. > > on this pc there�s linux already installed and i want to mirror the > mounted > > root filesystem on a second harddrive. > > i need a documentation or some how-to�s. > > can anybody help me ? > > thanks a lot > > regards > > ph. trolliet > > > > - > > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in > > the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > You wanna know how to migrate single disk --> raid1? > i know one recomended method (by Martin Bene): > > 1) mkraid with the disk containing your data specified as > "failed-disk" instead of "raid-disk". This creates the raid array in > degraded mode, using just the new disk. > > 2) create a new filesystem on the raid device (mke2fs) > > 3) copy data from old filesystem to new filesystem on raid (cp -a > generaly works ok). > > 4) restart system using just the new raid device > > 5) if all is well, raidhotadd the old disk to the raid device to make > it redundant. > > More detailed explanations can be foind on the list archives by > searching for "failed-disk", has been discussed quite often. > > Thanks, > Edward. > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in > the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
