I'm trying to use an external HDD for backups. In case it's relevant:
this is a SATA drive in an enclosure w/ eSATA and USB 2 interfaces (which
shows up as JMicron JM20336 SATA, USB Combo in dmesg). The jack on the
computer is USB 1, however. I'm currently running i386 4.4-stable with
Michal wrote (04/22/09 08:45):
So create an a and a d partition not an a and a b partition. Of
course, this guide is for 2 drives that are both bootable, yours will
be simpler of course but it should help you out.
Thanks; that's helpful. I know that the array can be bootable, but the
kernel
I'm trying to have everything except /home mounted on wd0, with /home
mounted on a RAID 1 array comprising wd1a and wd2a. There are no other
partitions on wd1 and wd2. (Unless you count the c partition.)
I tried to prepare wd1 and wd2 with:
# fdisk -i wd1
# disklabel -E wd1
and following the
Nick Holland wrote (04/21/09 21:39):
I looked. Your advice does not tell you to newfs your raw RAID
partition. Go read it again.
I REALLY recommend UNDERSTANDING how this works, not just blindly
following someone's recipe.
You're right -- on both counts.
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