On Friday 20 April 2007 20:25, John Jason Jordan wrote: > What I want to do now is create one more RAID 1 partition, using the > rest of the disk. From what you say, and the silence of others, there > is no way to do this from within Etch.
The following instructions are from memory. I'm not going to wipe out and rebuild a system to test them. Follow them with caution, there may be mistakes. Try to read up on MD (and LVM) and understand what you're going to do before you do it. Check my suggestions against the man pages and against the actual configuration of your system. Use fdisk to create the additional partitions on each drive, and to set their partition types to 'fd'. I don't know what your new partitions will be called but for the purposes of this example I'll call them /dev/hda9 and /dev/hdb9. "cat /etc/mdstat" and choose a /dev/mdN that isn't being used. For example if you have no MD devices you'd use /dev/md0, which is what I will use in this example. Create the new /dev/md0: mdadm -C /dev/md0 -n 2 -l raid1 /dev/hda9 /dev/hdb9 You could then make a filesystem on /dev/md0 and create a mountpoint and add a line to /etc/fstab. Better still would be to turn /dev/md0 into a LVM physical volume (using pvcreate), create a volume group containing that physical volume (using vgcreate), and then create a logical volume using some of that space (using lvcreate). You can then create the new filesystem in the new logical volume. This gives you much more scope for creating, deleting, and resizing filesystems. --Mike Bird -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
