Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1495 mails)

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I have had complete success partitioning my root+boot partition from my
/home partition which helps a great deal in installing a new version and
not selecting the update option and formatting just my root=boot
partition and leaving /home partition to be over written with new settings.

I have had a great deal of success in partitioning and extra space below
/home as /home/data being a different physical drive.

I have had complete sucess in combining the total space of more than one
physical drive into one striped drive and mounting MD0 etc......

I have had complete success in encrypting a partition of /home/.....

I have not yet been able to Mirror my Boot+Root partitions despite
formatting with the correct format and creating a mirror RAID - Is there
anything special in creating a RAID (mirror) of the boot+root partitions
of a HDD. In the past I have kept the volume space identical on 2
different Physical drive to create a meaningful redundant boot+root
partition that will be preserved if 1 physical drive fails that contains
the boot+root partition. Yes I always configure ample swap space in all
the above where multiples physical drives exist despite running 8 GIG of
RAM.

Is there something I have possible not done to correctly boot from a
(RAID) Redundant boot+root drive on different physical media.

I have not tried to RAID Redundant any /home/ or below mount point so I
may have missed something.

P.S Hate the new Partitioner in 11.1 - I saw nothing wrong with its form
in 11.0, but like everything it needs to be like a dependency tree
picture to keep everyone happy ;-)

Scott