[sclug] Software raid question

[Rus Foster]

On Mon, 12 Jan 2004, Tim Sutton wrote:

> Hi all
>
> I have just set up a server using Suse 9.0 ftp install. The machine has dual
> 200gig  ide hard drives and I have set up raid 1 mirrors for the /home /opt
> and / partitions. When I was setting things up, suses partion tool would not
> let me create /boot as a raid group (although mandrake does let you do this).
> Subsequently I have a 235mb boot partition on /dev/hda1 and an empty partion
> of the same exact size on /dev/hdb1. This is not too much f a problem as I
> dont expect /boot to change very often - so I want to just clone the hd1
> partition onto hdb1 including the mbr so that if hda1 does a nose dive, I can
> still boot and use the machine from hdb1. Is dd able to do this? What is the
> proper way to use dd to ensure that the mbr gets copied over properly?


There is a part in the software RAID Howto on how to convert a single boot
partition to raid

http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Software-RAID-HOWTO-7.html#ss7.6

Rus
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