Fw: [opensuse] Software RAID with existing drive

----- Original Message ----- From: "Brandon Carl" To: "James Tremblay" Sent: Saturday, July 07, 2007 4:08 PM Subject: Re: [opensuse] Software RAID with existing drive

James,

Do I really need to RAID the swap, isn't it just temporary storage? And, I have about 5 samba shares for my network in the /home folder, would I have to edit those if I move them into /srv? I'll try this approach, and hopefully it will work.

Thanks for the fast reply.

-Brandon Carl Spleeyah@spleeyah.com www.spleeyah.com

----- Original Message ----- From: "James Tremblay" To: "Brandon Carl" Cc: Sent: Saturday, July 07, 2007 3:54 PM Subject: Re: [opensuse] Software RAID with existing drive

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Brandon, I have played with software raid several times. 1) If you are looking for your whole system in a mirrored state, it's tricky but possible. 2) if you want to build a new mirrored /home that is easier.

1- you can do a reinstall and manually do the partitioning in yast. you will need two equal partitions for /boot but not as mirrors the second is a place holder for rescue and recovery, and two set up as a "linux raid" for each of the sections you want mirrored, i.e, two for swap, two for /, while remembering not to touch your current /home but creating an equal partition for it to raid to later. I would recommend creating a mirrored /srv partition with as much space as you have in /home now when the system is running you can copy your /home into the new /srv in a folder like /srv/storage and then delete and recreate a new linux raid partition for /home. 2- create a software raid using the free space on your current disk and the new disk and mount it as /storage or /vol1 or ....

James Tremblay Director of Technology Newmarket School District Newmarket,NH http://en.opensuse.org/Education "let's make a difference"

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