you are wrong about not being able to mirror / you need the latest alpha raid
patches for this. as well as the latest raid tools from your local
ftp.XX.kernel.org mirror.
see the archives of this list, and esp the documentation that comes in the
latest raid 19990309 patches.
are you familiar with the program \'dd\'?
i use dd to copy the raw partitions ie /dev/sda1 to /dev/sdb1 on a couple older
boxes.
allan
ClassiFIND - John Sinnott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> Hi everyone, let me introduce myself. My name is John Sinnott and I am a
> system/network/database administrator. The boxes at the company where I
> work have been primarily NT, but we are starting to phase in some Linux
> boxes. My experience with Linux is somewhat limited.
>
> I have just finished setting up a Compaq ProLiant 1850R with two hot-plug
> 4.3GB drives with Linux. I setup software RAID-1 for the following
> partitions: /tmp, /var, /usr, /home, /opt I also created two swap
> partitions, one on each drive. Finally, I created the / partition on
> /dev/sda and another equally sized partition on /dev/sdb. Since (as I
> understand it) I cannot as yet have RAID-1 across the / partition, I was
> planning on doing a cold copy of /dev/sda1 (/) to /dev/sdb1 so that I could
> at least be up and running again quickly if /dev/sda did fail.
>
> So my only problem has been how to copy all the device files from /dev from
> the / partition to its cold-copy? cp fails, and there are too many devices
> for me to do a mknod on each. I thought about recursively doing an ls on
> the /dev directory and parsing that with PERL or something to
> programmatically call mknod, but I figured there must be a simpler way. Any
> ideas?
>
> Thanks
> John
>
>
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