Re: Recipe for Mirrored OS Drives

2006-10-03 Thread Erik Mouw
On Sun, Oct 01, 2006 at 07:45:46PM -0400, andy liebman wrote: -- Run rsync to copy contents from your existing OS drive rsync -av /mnt/oldroot /mnt/newroot rsync -av /mnt/oldhome /mnt/newhome At least add the -H flag to copy hardlinks. -S for sparse files might also be

Re: Recipe for Mirrored OS Drives

2006-10-03 Thread David Greaves
Nix wrote: On 2 Oct 2006, David Greaves spake: I suggest you link from http://linux-raid.osdl.org/index.php/RAID_Boot The pages don't really have the same purpose. RAID_Boot is `how to boot your RAID system using initramfs'; this is `how to set up a RAID system in the first place', i.e.,

Re: Recipe for Mirrored OS Drives

2006-10-02 Thread David Greaves
andy liebman wrote: Feel free to add it here: http://linux-raid.osdl.org/index.php/Main_Page I haven't been able to do much for a few weeks (typical - I find some time and use it all up just getting the basic setup done - still it's started!) David Any hints on how to add a page?

Re: Recipe for Mirrored OS Drives

2006-10-02 Thread Nix
On 2 Oct 2006, David Greaves spake: I suggest you link from http://linux-raid.osdl.org/index.php/RAID_Boot The pages don't really have the same purpose. RAID_Boot is `how to boot your RAID system using initramfs'; this is `how to set up a RAID system in the first place', i.e., setup. I'll give

Recipe for Mirrored OS Drives

2006-10-01 Thread andy liebman
in order to build a proper initrd so that it includes the required drivers. Your distribution may require you to specify what you want to put in the initrd. Recipe for Creating Mirrored OS Drives from Exiting OS Drive REQUIREMENTS: -- One or Two NEW SATA drives of the same size. If only ONE