On 6/14/05, Aurélien Campéas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Le mardi 14 juin 2005 à 09:27 +0530, Siju George a écrit : > > On 6/13/05, Aurélien Campéas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Le lundi 13 juin 2005 à 12:58 +0530, Siju George a écrit : > > > > Hi all, > > > > > > > > I would like to implement Disk mirroring ( Raid1 ) in Debian Sarge. Is > > > > it possible to configure it while installation if I have both hard > > > > disks attached?? > > > > > > > > Could someone please tell me what is the easiest way ( steps ) to get > > > > this done??? > > > > > > > > I hope it will be easy because the Installer has an option to > > > > configure software RAID but I a not able to get doing it successfully > > > > :-( > > > > > > Can you give more details about what's going on ? Without much, nobody > > > will be able to help. > > > > > > > Thankyou so much Aurélien for responding! > > Note that I know next to nothing wrt RAID & Debian. But you need to > explain your concerns better. > > > > > I have two hard disks 40 GB each! I want to have RAID 1 including the > > / partition and boot loader. ie if one hard disk goes down I should be > > able to boot from the other one. > > > > How do I configure it with the installer?? > > > > I want to have the following partitions in both the hard disk > > > > / - 500 MB - Primary > > swap - 2 GB - Primary > > /usr - 5 GB - Primary > > /home - 500 MB - Logical > > /tmp - 5 GB - Logical > > /var/log - 5 GB -logical > > /var - rest of the disk - logical > > Do you *really* need to split hairs like that ? Do you know the > drawbacks of segmenting your hard drives into so many partitions vs. the > supposed benefits ? > > > > I prefer ext3 or ReiserFS for file systems. > > I now prefer reiserfs over ext3. > > > > > How should I go about it??? is it possible to configure these > > partitions in the first hard disk and finish the install and then > > later do the mirroring? > > I suspect not, but again, I didn't try even once ... > > > or is it possible to do the mirroring also > > during the install??? > > See Alvin's answer. > > Check by yourself : just go ahead and try RAID from the installer ! And > then tell us how it went :)
Alright friend :-) I just completed it successfully! I first created identical partitions in each hard disk and marked them as RAID Physical volumes. The I created the RAID devices and then specified mount points and ReiserFS :-) It worked al right and easy but when I installed the boot loader I think it got installed only on the hd0 and not on hd1!!! how do I verify this??? and how can testif the RAID is woring fine??? Thankyou so much Kind Regards Siju
