Hi Alvin, On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 01:08:42PM -0700, Alvin Oga wrote: > > I do not want to boot of it. > > okay... another step in raid-land for a later day to setup
I actually got it wrong in my original post: the first disk is on hdb. hda is a little disk that gets booted (boot and / are mounted on it). The disks in the raid don't get recognized by the bios. (I have tried everything...). My first aim is to put /usr /var /home /data /archive in raid. /data and /archive are already in raid (without data, that data is on an other machine). > > Can't I use ext3 on the raid system? > > you can do anything you like to the individual partitions > > when you do mkraid /dev/mdo ... ( everything is lost that was previously > done so there is no point to doing anything outside of "raid commands" > - if you want to preserve /home ... tar it up before creating > the raid and do the raid stuff correctlt and than restore from > tar ... Ok. I'll do it this way as this is the easiest way, to me. An other question. When I want to put the /usr and /var in the raid is it ok if I do it this way: - boot with linux single - backup /usr/ and /var and put on e.g. one of the partions already in raid - make the raid for the /usr and /var - mount them and put the data back - change /etc/fstab - unmount - reboot Thanks for you very usefull help. Rudy -- Rudy Gevaert [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web page http://www.webworm.org GNU/Linux user and Savannah hacker http://savannah.gnu.org Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal. - Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
