On Sun, 2006-01-29 at 07:48 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm planning to set my new AMD-64 system up with the bulk of its files > on a software RAID-1 device. Although there are now ways to get the > system to boot from a RAID device, there are also warnings about the > difficulty of using rescue CDs when things go wrong. So I would like to > be able to boot strictly from a nonRAID partition (preferably a reiser, > but if there are tropubles with that too, let me know). > > Presumably I would need /boot, /bin, /etc, and maybe /root off the RAID > device, so that it would still boot if the RAID were inaccessible. And > I can probably place /usr and /home on the RAID. What else needs to be > on nonRAID partitions so that booting and using rescue disks will go > smoothly?
I think i would be safer to only put the "big" partition on the RAID device, leaving / on the JBOD. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson, LA USA "Would you mind not firing on the thermonuclear weapons?" A great line, from a *great* movie: Broken Arrow -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
