On Monday 22 August 2005 17.46, Veron Camandanta wrote: > Hi, > > I am new to Debian and want to create a RAID 1 from to HDs. Should I > partition and format the two HDs first and then create the RAID array? If > so, should I partion booth HDs in the same way or only one of them?
If you're going to install Debian from scratch on this machine: the Debian installer can install Debian on a RAID 1 natively, no need to fiddle with all the tools manually. In the partitionar: create exactly the same partitioning scheme on both disks (for those partitions that you want to use RAID on), and instead of chosing 'Reiser' or 'ext3' as the filesystem for each partition, pick 'RAID autodetect'. Then select the 'set up RAID' option in the partitioner, just carefully read and follow the instructions. You'll then come back again to the partitioner, and in addition to the physical hard drive, you'll see the RAID partitions added, and you can now create filesystems and specify mount points on the RAID partitions. I'm using grub, and the system was set up bootable. I didn't test failure behaviour - maybe the system won't boot from the 2nd hard drive, but as this is a desktop system there will always be some boot CD around, so I'm not going to worry. -- vbi -- Today is Prickle-Prickle, the 15th day of Bureaucracy in the YOLD 3171
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