hi ya donno what youa re doing...
what does /etc/fstab look like... what does /etc/raidtab look like.. c ya alvin On Fri, 17 Nov 2000, Manuel Hendel wrote: > I did all shown in the Softare-Raid-HOWTO, but it didn't work. I did > the mkraid /dev/md0 with the umounted partition /var. It aborted and > wanted me to look at the syslogs. But if the /var partition is > umounted, there's no place to log to. > What can I do now? > > Thanks, > Manuel > > > > > I gonna try that. I'll tell you the results. > > > > Thanks, > > Manuel > > > > > > > > > hi ya manuel.. > > > > > > sounds like you want a "root-boot mirror"...not just mirroring.. > > > which is trickier... > > > - i say just run lilo on the mirrored disk... > > > each time you change the booting thingies > > > ( kernels, lilo, etc ) > > > - than it should boot if you do get to hdb instead of hda > > > - why make it complicated ??? > > > > > > if / or the / partition dies...you've got bigger problems > > > than just mirroring anyway.....mirroring wont hide the source/cause > > > of the problems... > > > > > > c ya > > > alvin > > > > > > On Fri, 17 Nov 2000, Manuel Hendel wrote: > > > > > > > Thanks for the first time. that's what I wanted. But is it possible to > > > > boot than from the mirror. How does this funktion? > > > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > Manuel > > > > > > > > > hi ya manuel.. > > > > > > > > > > none.... you already have mirroring part of the kernel... > > > > > > > > > > just setup /etc/raidtab for raid1 == mirroring > > > > > > > > > > http://ostenfeld.dk/~jakob/Software-RAID.HOWTO/ > > > > > > > > > > http://www.Linux-Consulting.com/Raid/raid1.conf > > > > > http://www.Linux-Consulting.com/Raid > > > > > > > > > > you can tell it what partitions to mirror... > > > > > ( i think both disks should be partitioned indentically > > > > > ( on identical manufacturers drives to minimize headaches > > > > > > > > > > have fun > > > > > alvin > > > > > http://www.linux-1U.net ... 1U Raid5 .... > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Fri, 17 Nov 2000, Manuel Hendel wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > > > > > I have to setup a machine with a sofwareraid, just a mirror. Which > > > > > > tool should I use, raidtools, raidtools2 or mdutils? > > > > > > > > > > > > I already set up the machine on one disk. I made the five > > > > > > partitions, > > > > > > boot, root, swap, usr, var. Is it possible to mirror the whole disk > > > > > > and boot from the boot partition? By the way, I got debian potato > > > > > > installed. > > > > > > > > > > > > Thanks fot any help, > > > > > > Manuel > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > > > > > > > > > -- > > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > > > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null >
