Paul wrote: > Ted Miller wrote: > >>>>> Can anyone point me to a good howto or similar tutorial sort of page >>>>> about setting up linux raid with Md 2006, during or after install? >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> The installer will set up RAID for you. You just tell it what drives, >>>> what >>>> RAID level, etc, and it will set it up. >>>> >>> >>> Well, not quite that simple. I don't remember seeing any menu questions >>> during partitioning of the first drive pertaining to raid if the >>> partitions were named (such as /, var, etc). If the partitions on that >>> drive are type Linux Raid, how does it decide which partitions are what? >>> I tried this, you see, but there didn't seem to be a way to assign a >>> partition name if that partition is added to raid. Do you set up >>> partitions on the second drive equal in size to the ones on the first >>> then add them to raid? If so, how do you tell it to mirror. I also tried >>> that, you see, but there was no result showing that anything was >>> mirrored. Can you be more specific. >> >> >> >> After you assign the partition type to RAID, and then assign that >> partition >> to a RAID drive, then RAID shows up like another hard drive, in a >> separate >> tab in the partitioning software. You go in and format the RAID >> partitions >> and assign them mount points. In other words, once you hand a partition >> over to RAID, you have to go around and wait until it is all put together >> (by your choices), and then take the packaged RAID (which looks to Linux >> like a plain drive), and assign the whole package to a file system and >> to a >> mount point. >> > > There must be something I'm not getting. I have sda and sdb. If I create > some partitions on sda in what seems an appropriate size for what I'd > like them to be formatted as (/, usr, var, home [swap left out here > because as I understand it you don't put that in raid]), but make them > type raid, I am not able to do anything like assign mount points in the > raid tab although it does appear. Do I need to do some work on the sdb > drive?
Did you click on the "Add to RAID" button? That is where you assign the partition to md0, md1, md2, or whatever. I don't remember if DiskDrake will let you assign a mount point to an incomplete RAID drive or not (i.e. sda added to RAID, but nothing from sdb added). Ted Miller ____________________________________________________ Want to buy your Pack or Services from Mandriva? Go to http://store.mandriva.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrivaclub.com ____________________________________________________
