Re: [gentoo-user] Duplicate identical Hard Disk

2010-04-02 Thread Joseph
On 04/02/10 07:59, Mark Knecht wrote: Good questions: 1) Yes, you can RAID partitions of drives. That's what I'm doing. You can look at the Gentoo RAID/LVM Install guide to see an example of using RAID0 and RAID1 on a single drive. http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-x86+raid+lvm2-quickinstall.

Re: [gentoo-user] Duplicate identical Hard Disk

2010-04-02 Thread Mark Knecht
On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 5:02 AM, Dan Cowsill wrote: > On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 10:09 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: >> >> With only 2 disks I personally think you're on the right path. With 3 >> disks I'm personally planning on RAID1 using 3 copies. >> ... >> My comment about RAID was that I am learning the

Re: [gentoo-user] Duplicate identical Hard Disk

2010-04-02 Thread Dan Cowsill
On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 10:09 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: > > With only 2 disks I personally think you're on the right path. With 3 > disks I'm personally planning on RAID1 using 3 copies. > ... > My comment about RAID was that I am learning the hard (alas expensive) > way that not all disks can actuall

Re: [gentoo-user] Duplicate identical Hard Disk

2010-04-01 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 6:40 PM, Joseph wrote: > On 04/01/10 17:43, Mark Knecht wrote: >> >> On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 4:02 PM, Paul Hartman >> wrote: >>> >>> On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 5:48 PM, Joseph wrote: I have two identical HD in the box and want to duplicate sda to sdb; sdb is not

Re: [gentoo-user] Duplicate identical Hard Disk

2010-04-01 Thread Joseph
On 04/01/10 17:43, Mark Knecht wrote: On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 4:02 PM, Paul Hartman wrote: On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 5:48 PM, Joseph wrote: I have two identical HD in the box and want to duplicate sda to sdb; sdb is not even partitioned. I think I could do: dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb but I need t

Re: [gentoo-user] Duplicate identical Hard Disk

2010-04-01 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 4:02 PM, Paul Hartman wrote: > On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 5:48 PM, Joseph wrote: >> I have two identical HD in the box and want to duplicate sda to sdb; >> sdb is not even partitioned. >> I think I could do: >> dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb >> but I need to boot from CD isn't it?

Re: [gentoo-user] Duplicate identical Hard Disk

2010-04-01 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 5:48 PM, Joseph wrote: > I have two identical HD in the box and want to duplicate sda to sdb; > sdb is not even partitioned. > I think I could do: > dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb > but I need to boot from CD isn't it? Yes, basically, boot from USB or CD and use ddrescue to clo