I've gotten to the Expert Partitioner in Yast on the install disc, but I don't know what to do from there. Listed are 8 devices: Device: /dev/mapper/sli_ahahafdeeibj Size: 232.8 Gb F: Type: BIOS RAID sli_ahahafdeeibj Mount: Mount By: Start: 0 End: 30400 Used By: Label: Device ID: Device Path: Device: /dev/mapper/sli_ahahafdeeibj_part1 Size: 70.5 Mb F: F Type: DM Raid (Ext3) Mount: /boot Mount By: K Start: 1542 End: 1550 Used By: Label: Device ID: Device Path: Device: /dev/mapper/sli_ahahafdeeibj_part2 Size: 839.3 Mb F: Type: DM Raid Mount: Mount By: Start: 1435 End: 1541 Used By: Label: Device ID: Device Path: Device: /dev/mapper/sli_ahahafdeeibj_part3 Size: 221.0 Gb F: F Type: DM Raid (Ext3) Mount: /home Mount By: K Start: 1551 End: 30400 Used By: Label: Device ID: Device Path: Device: /dev/mapper/sli_ahahafdeeibj_part4 Size: 10.9 Gb F: F Type: DM RAID (Ext3) Mount: / Mount By: K Start: 0 End: 1434 Used By: Label: Device ID: Device Path: Device: /dev/mapper/sli_ahahafdeeibj_part5 Size: 831.4 Mb F: Type: DM Raid Mount: swap Mount By: K Start: 1435 End: 1540 Used By: Label: Device ID: Device Path: Device: /dev/hda Size: 232.8 Gb F: Type: ST3250623A Mount: Mount By: Start: 0 End: 30400 Used By: RAID sli_ahahafdeeibj Label: Device ID: ata-ST3250623A_4ND4WY67 Device Path: pci-0000:00:0f.0-ide-0:0 Device: /dev/hdb Size: 232.8 Gb F: Type: WDC-WD2500jB-00REA0 Mount: Mount By: Start: 0 End: 30400 Used By: RAID sli_ahahafdeeibj Label: Device ID: ata-WDC_WD2500jB-00REA0_WD-WMANK5725185 Device Path: pci-0000:00:0f.0-ide-0:1 The /dev/hda is the hard drive that openSUSE is currently installed on. The /dev/hdb is the new hard drive I would like to use as a mirror. I would like to have the entire system mirrored, but I only require the /home to be mirrored, because it contains all of my important data. -Brandon Carl Spleeyah@spleeyah.com www.spleeyah.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "James Tremblay" <jamesat@comcast.net> To: "Brandon Carl" <spleeyah@spleeyah.com> Cc: <opensuse@opensuse.org> Sent: Saturday, July 07, 2007 3:54 PM Subject: Re: [opensuse] Software RAID with existing drive
Brandon, I have played with software raid several times. tricky but possible.
- If you are looking for your whole system in a mirrored state, it's
- 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 ....
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