On Wed, 2005-12-21 at 00:49 -0500, suse_gasjr4wd@mac.com wrote:
On 12/20/05 11:36 PM, "Art Fore" <art.fore@comcast.net> wrote:
I have a machine with Suse 10.0 running with raid 1. One of the disks died, and I wanted to backup the other disk before I installed the new disk to replace the old. Suse was working fine until I executed the tar command to backup the drive excluding /tmp, /proc, and one other I don't recall now.
I bet no help to you...but- It's not like the data isn't on the first drive... I can't speak for rebuilding a RAID on Linux as I haven't came to that point yet, but on our OSX servers, we just replace the drive and rebuild the raid without missing a beat in the background...should be the same idea in this situation. Folks in OSX land do it via CLI. I'm not that savy... They do something like: diskutil enableRAID mirror disk0
<rant> Please, if you don't know about the problem then don't offer advice. Offering commands that are for a totally different OS will not help here. This is -not- OSX. </rant> To the OP, it sounds like you were not backing up to a tape drive and ended up filling up the good harddrive. Boot to the rescue CD/DVD and look in the /dev directory or where ever you told tar to put the backup file and delete it. You should then be able to at least boot the system. Show us the exact command you used for the tar backup. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998