Hi
Kevin Wood wrote:
>
> Hey all, got a question for you. I need to build a software raid with
> RH6.0. It will be a RAID1(mirroring). I can build a raid and mount it,
> I'm
> familiar that far, but what I need to know is the following:
>
> 1. How do I mirror /usr without destroying the data on it.
>
> 2. If I can't do above, how do I raid /usr and then install RH6.0 over it
> so that the software will all work.
It seems that /usr is your location of /home...
>
> If you have any information, it would be greatly appreciated.
If the raid is started by the rescue disk (I am using SuSE, but I heard
RedHat is
containing something similar), you can tar the /usr from the one disk to
the raid.
Under SuSE I would do the following:
- starting the rescue system (system which lays in RAM)
- starting raid
- mounting old /usr under /OLD
- mounting raid under /NEW
- changing to /OLD
- doing a "tar cSpf - . | ( cd /NEW && tar xSpvf - )"
You can follow this procedure also on the SuSE support database (where I
got it from
once) by searching for "System umkopieren".
Greetings, Dietmar
