On 17/05/16 11:57, Dave Howorth wrote:
On 2016-05-17 11:35, Carlos E. R. wrote:
On 2016-05-17 12:07, Bob Williams wrote:
On 17/05/16 10:46, Carlos E. R. wrote:
On 2016-05-17 08:34, Bob Williams wrote:
I am in the process of setting up my system partition on an SSD drive. Working towards this I have bought a second (rotating) hard drive which will form the basis of a RAID1 array for /home.
I have managed to create an encrypted RAID1 array comprising a single drive, onto which I have copied /home.
Previously:
/dev/sda1 / /dev/sda2 /home
Now:
/dev/sda1 / /dev/sda2 not mounted (contains old /home) /dev/sdb1 -> /dev/md0 /home
sda is the SSD, and sdb the rotating rust?
No, sda and sdb are both 3TB rotating rust. The SSD has not been installed yet, but when it is, I want to use the existing sda to join the md0 array.
Why don't you create the raid now, as you have the two rotating disks already installed? I don't understand.
Because he's intending to use the whole of the disks for the RAID for /home but the older disk still has his root filesystem on it.
Correct
Personally, I would probably keep the root filesystem on both disks, as a backup to the SSD that can be be booted if ever necessary, and make the /home RAID in the sd*2 partitions on both disks.
Good idea. -- Bob Williams System: Linux 4.1.20-11-default Distro: openSUSE 42.1 (x86_64) Desktop: KDE Frameworks: 5.21.0, Qt: 5.5.1 and Plasma: