Please disgregard this email.. I screwed up 3 times in a row.. not sure
how that happened but jsut after i sent the email i tried angain and it
worked for some reason before i was putting the an extra directory on
the partition, sorry to waste your time..
cheers
-marcos
(now to figure out root on raid and boot raid.. this should be fun :-))
Marcos Lopez wrote:
>
> I currently have a new system on which i would eventually like to get
> boot RAID-1 working off of 2 9GB SCSI drives. But I am having a problem
> getting this to work, here is where I am at.
>
> I have
>
> 1) installed the system (Red Hat 6.1) onto an IDE drive (which I plan to
> pull once i get everything moved over to the RAID drives.)
> 2) I have partitioned my SCSI drives identical to each other
> 3) set up my /etc/raidtab file and run mkraid
> 4) performed a mke2fs on my new /dev/md0 - 3
> 5) moved /home over to /dev/md3, added the entry into the /etc/fstab
> file
> /dev/md3 /home ext2 defaults 1 2
>
> 6) I can reboot the machine and everything works just fine.
>
> 7) Try to move /var onto /dev/md1 using the exact same procedure as
> above, but when I try to reboot my system I get error messages all over
> the place that it can not find /var/(some file), this occurs for several
> files then it try's to start logging sits there for quite a while and
> eventually comes up.
>
> Question 1:
> What do i have to do different with /var, /home works great?
>
> Question 2:
> I will eventually want to get this system with just the 2 SCSI drives
> and pull my very old and tired IDE drive out. I am planning on the
> following setup:
> md0 -> /
> md1 -> /var
> md2 -> /usr
> md3 -> /home
>
> Does this seem like a good approach, I am VERY new to RAID and have read
> the How to's and such many times and this seems like an okay way to go.
> Let me know if you see any flags there.
>
> thanks
> -marcos
> Bitonic Solutions Inc.
