Oops.  This was meant to go to the list.

On Mon, 2003-02-10 at 06:44, civileme wrote:
> On Sunday 09 February 2003 04:23 am, Brian Parish wrote:
> > Hmmm.  When diskdrake runs during an install, I can create partitions of
> > type "linux raid" (I think that was it) and then add them to a raid
> > set.  Now on a working 9.0 system, when I run diskdrake I only get a
> > small subset of the options offered during install.  Linux raid ain't
> > one of 'em.
> >
> > Is this a feature to stop me doing something stupid, or am I missing
> > something?
> >
> > TIA
> > Brian
> 
> Well, if you have two disks and space on each and you TOGGLE TO EXPERT MODE, 
> your options should appear.
> 
> http://www.geocities.com/civileme/raiddoc.html
> 
> The screenshots there were made with DiskDrake
> 
> Civileme

Thanks Civileme, Robert and Greg,

I must have clicked that button a hundred times, but not for this
instance.

I note in Civileme's how-to:
----
If the reader is wondering why no screenshots of the setting of mount
points and file types, DiskDrake as part of Mandrake Control Center on a
running system balks at this point, bringing down X and making the
system go into a huddle that can be met only with Alt-sysrq-r,
alt-sysrq-s, alt-sysrq-b. RAID must really be defined at install time.
----
Just to clarify:  I have a running system, but with two disks in
addition to that holding /, /usr, /home, /var and /tmp.  These can be
completely repartitioned when setting up raid - in this case just a
RAID1 mirror of the complete disks.

Is diskdrake going to choke in this circumstance?  That machine is on
another site, so I can't play with it for the moment.  If it's going to
screw up, then I better start reading about how to do it with the CLI.

thanks again
Brian
-- 
Brian Parish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>


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