So I should have learned more about partitions first. I think I am good now. If I remove either drive it will still boot.
I still can't get a rebuild to happen when I replace one drive with a blank drive (simulating a dead drive being replaced.) Maybe I am missing something... maybe the drive has to get marked somehow as bad first, then removed and replaced? Thanks for more help! -----Original Message----- From: Brian Wilson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 12, 2006 12:38 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: Help a newbie with software RAID? > Greetings! I would like to know how to do a software RAID-1 setup. If you are working with a fresh install from CDROM you can do it from the installer. I can't give you a step-by-step from memory. I wish that they'd describe it in the manual. You really don't want to do a conversion once the system is running, it's a hack. (It is the way I do it because all my installs are done remotely.) It's a pain... Sorry I dont have access to try it right now... my recollection is that you do a manual partition and specify type RAID-1. Is this vague enough for you? Get to the manual partition page (select manual instead of auto partition) Delete all existing partitions by selecting each one and deleting it, create pairs of new partitions on each drive (I suggest /boot on hda1/hdc1, / on hda2/hdc2, and swap on hda5/hdc5 for example) Make boot around 100M, / around 2 GB, and swap around 1 GB. Put the rest of the space in /home on hda6/hdc6 (Actually I usually create another partition that is not RAID on hda3 and hdc3 around 2GB and use it as a 'rescue' partition or to allow reinstalling later without touching the existing / partition but that is another story. I usuallly also put /var on a separate RAID pair at hda6/hdc6 and home goes in partition 7. If you leave /var/ on / then make it bigger than 2GB. Partitioning is a religious topic.) I think that once you have the pairs of paritions set up you can edit each one and say it is type RAID and select a filesystem for it. I use ext2 on /boot, ext3 on /, and these days am trying xfs on /var and /home It is either in the EDIT menu or in a separate RAID buttton, can't quite remember. Hope this is some help... Once the system is running it will be hidden away in EVMS volumes so I suggest you might make a note on paper and keep it around to make it easier on yourself later. Brian _______________________________________________ tsl-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.trustix.org/mailman/listinfo/tsl-discuss
