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RE: [SLE] IDE disks, SW RAID & YaST
- From: "PcgScrapAddy" <pcgscrap@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2004 06:54:21 -0600
- Message-id: <NEBBLIHCKNLFOFANCPKBOEOMDLAA.pcgscrap@xxxxxxxxxxx>
actually it isn't as I have read those docs and it does not mention anything
about what you need to do with a disk that was partitioned normally at setup
time then you return later to do a raid 1 setup and mirror its contents to
another separate disk using the partitioner in yast.
In a nutshell, I want to leave disk 1 unchanged and simply mirror its
partitions to disk 2 but when selecting the partitions to add to /dev/md0 it
only gives me those partitions I created on disk 2 with FD = RAID. It does
not allow me to specify which partition on disk 1 I want to mirror because
the disk 1 partitions FDs are set as linux native not raid.
-----Original Message-----
From: Niclas Arndt [mailto:niclas_arndt@xxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2004 3:04 AM
To: pcgscrap@xxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [SLE] IDE disks, SW RAID & YaST
Hi Kevin
This is mentioned in the how-to for soft raid. Check you "Docs" directory on
your CD:s or www.tldp.org.
Regards
/Niclas
>From: "PcgScrapAddy" <pcgscrap@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>To: "SuSE listserve" <suse-linux-e@xxxxxxxx>
>Subject: [SLE] IDE disks, SW RAID & YaST
>Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2004 22:17:36 -0600
>
>I have 4 IDE disks in a existing system that I want enable software RAID
>level 1 for. Disk 1 will be mirrored to disk 2, disk 3 will be mirrored to
>disk 4. Disk 1 has already been partitioned (hda1-4) with SuSE 8.1
>installed
>running off the mainboard's IDE controller #1 and disk 2 is on controller 2
>respective. Disks 3 & 4 are running on a Promise ATA-100 IDE Controller
>card. I do not use LVM.
>
>I attempted to use yast to enable raid 1 but it tells me at least 2
>partitions need to belong to /dev/md0 but only the hdc raid partitions show
>in the add/remove area. Attempting to change the FD from 0x83 (linux
>native)
>to 0xFD (raid) of the hda disk partitions gives me a nice warning that
>doesn't make me feel warm and fuzzy about doing the operation.
>
>Here is the partition scheme of disk 1 (hda)
>
>/boot ext2 109MB (or ext3 ... cant remember)
>/home reiserfs 5GB
>swap swap 4GB
>/ reiserfs ~111GB
>
>hdc, hdi & hdk are all empty and unpartitioned. All disks are running on
>their own controller.
>
>Should I simply boot into rescue mode and change the FDs from their and
>then
>go back and rerun yast to finish the deed or is it more complicated?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Kevin
>
>
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about what you need to do with a disk that was partitioned normally at setup
time then you return later to do a raid 1 setup and mirror its contents to
another separate disk using the partitioner in yast.
In a nutshell, I want to leave disk 1 unchanged and simply mirror its
partitions to disk 2 but when selecting the partitions to add to /dev/md0 it
only gives me those partitions I created on disk 2 with FD = RAID. It does
not allow me to specify which partition on disk 1 I want to mirror because
the disk 1 partitions FDs are set as linux native not raid.
-----Original Message-----
From: Niclas Arndt [mailto:niclas_arndt@xxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2004 3:04 AM
To: pcgscrap@xxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [SLE] IDE disks, SW RAID & YaST
Hi Kevin
This is mentioned in the how-to for soft raid. Check you "Docs" directory on
your CD:s or www.tldp.org.
Regards
/Niclas
>From: "PcgScrapAddy" <pcgscrap@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>To: "SuSE listserve" <suse-linux-e@xxxxxxxx>
>Subject: [SLE] IDE disks, SW RAID & YaST
>Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2004 22:17:36 -0600
>
>I have 4 IDE disks in a existing system that I want enable software RAID
>level 1 for. Disk 1 will be mirrored to disk 2, disk 3 will be mirrored to
>disk 4. Disk 1 has already been partitioned (hda1-4) with SuSE 8.1
>installed
>running off the mainboard's IDE controller #1 and disk 2 is on controller 2
>respective. Disks 3 & 4 are running on a Promise ATA-100 IDE Controller
>card. I do not use LVM.
>
>I attempted to use yast to enable raid 1 but it tells me at least 2
>partitions need to belong to /dev/md0 but only the hdc raid partitions show
>in the add/remove area. Attempting to change the FD from 0x83 (linux
>native)
>to 0xFD (raid) of the hda disk partitions gives me a nice warning that
>doesn't make me feel warm and fuzzy about doing the operation.
>
>Here is the partition scheme of disk 1 (hda)
>
>/boot ext2 109MB (or ext3 ... cant remember)
>/home reiserfs 5GB
>swap swap 4GB
>/ reiserfs ~111GB
>
>hdc, hdi & hdk are all empty and unpartitioned. All disks are running on
>their own controller.
>
>Should I simply boot into rescue mode and change the FDs from their and
>then
>go back and rerun yast to finish the deed or is it more complicated?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Kevin
>
>
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>
>
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