Re: raid

[Huston]

That is the way it was recommended by the software to have a whole disk 
partition.  I am okay with the data.  I have it someplace else too.  So how 
should I have my partitions set up?  Get rid of the overlapping 
partition....I am getting that.......so I should just have a Linux and swap 
partition....
So what partition should I be looking at raiding..... the Linux partition? 
What should I have put in my raidtab where the question marks are?  I had a 
3 for the whole disk.  I am assuming that I should just do the Linux 
partition..  Should my first device be my hard drive at 0?    I have the OS 
residing on disk 0.....Thanks in advance.

raiddev /dev/md0
       raid-level      5
       nr-raid-disks   3
       nr-spare-disks  0
       persistent-superblock 1
       parity-algorithm        left-symmetric
       chunk-size      32
       device          /dev/sda??????
       raid-disk       0
       device          /dev/sdb1
       raid-disk       1
       device          /dev/sdc1
       raid-disk       2

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mike Fedyk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Newsgroups: linux.debian.user
Sent: Tuesday, November 02, 2004 8:40 PM
Subject: Re: raid


Your data is gone.
I don't know why you have a partition that overlaps your others, but you 
have just erased all of your data.

Only use empty partitions for raid.  Then you create a filesystem on that 
and then put data in the partition.

Sorry, I hope you didn't have anything important on that drive, and that 
you had backups.

Mike
Huston wrote:
guess my formatting didn't stay....
Device flag            Start                End                Block Id 
System
/dev/sda1                0                    17000            1708000 83 
Linux
/dev/sda2               17000            17272            278528 82 
Linux Swap
/dev/sda3                0                    17272            17686528 5 
Whole disk

That is what I get for getting in a hurry......
----- Original Message ----- From: "Huston" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Mike Fedyk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, November 02, 2004 8:14 PM
Subject: Re: raid

Here is how it is when I hit "p" after putting in the disk and entering 
the partition a hard drive command.  They are in columns so you may have 
to maximize the window.

Device flag            Start                End                Block Id 
System
/dev/sad                0                    17000            1708000 83 
Linux
/dev/sad                17000            17272            278528 82 
Linux Swap
/dev/sad                0                    17272            17686528 5 
Whole disk

Those are how my partitions are set.   You can tell me if they are 
wrong, but that is how I have them  I probably should put my swap at the 
beginning of the drive.  Anything else you can throw at me would be 
helpful.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike Fedyk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Huston" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, November 02, 2004 7:48 PM
Subject: [Norton AntiSpam] Re: raid


Huston wrote:
sda3 is the partition for the whole drive where my root, and Linux 
partition reside.  I have three: Linux, root, and whole, which 
encompasses the other two.  Could that have been my problem?  Should I 
have just chosen root or native instead of whole.  Should I partition 
the other disk to be exact replicas of the first one?

I don't understand.
where is / mounted?
where is "Linux" mounted?
where is "whole" mounted?


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