On Fri, 20 Apr 2007 11:23:59 -0700 Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> dijo:
> On Fri, Apr 20, 2007 at 03:07:49PM -0300, Rogerio wrote: > > I want use RAID in Debian, do I have to use the MDADM package? Is it the > > best choice?? > > for software RAID where the RAID array is controlled by the kernel, > then yes, use mdadm. I have installed Etch amd64 on a new computer that I just built. Its ultimate purpose is to serve as storage for backups from my other two computers, plus to be a way to get on the net when I goober up my Linux laptop, which is unfortunately a fairly frequent occurrence. The motherboard has onboard RAID 0 and RAID 1 capability, but all my Linux friends told me to use Linux software RAID instead, which is what I did. Each drive has a 2 GB swap partition and a 50 GB Etch partition, assembled as md0 and md1. I wish to use the rest of each disk (250 GB) for storage of backups, also as RAID 1. I thought I could do this from within Etch, but gparted doesn't grok RAID-anything. Just now I tried mdadm and it turns out that it is command line only -- scary for a newbie like me! I can use gparted to create the ext3 partitions, but since it can't handle RAID, do I have to use mdadm to assemble them? Or is there a better tool? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
