Re: Converting system to raid

["Timothy D. Lenz" <tlenz@vorgon.com>]

From: "CoolCold" <coolthecold@gmail.com>

> Yes, he should provide correct /etc/mdadm/mdadm.conf and
> update-initramfs -u on md boot, smth like
> chroot /mnt/md0
> update-initramfs -u

How would this help in a system that doesn't ramdisk built in to the kernel or as a module? Or does it change some other stuff?


I started looking at the stuff that was copied to md0 and /md0/dev is empty. Looking through the guides I found a few things. One
said that using cp had to be from root or not everything would get coppied. I used sudo but I know some things require you to root.
Also this:
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# rsync -avHhx --progress / /mnt/raid-md0

    * If the system wasn't previously in single user mode, move to single user mode and update the data that changed during the
first copy:
(--delete flag tells rsync to delete files from the destination which do not exist on the source):

# rsync -avHhx --progress --delete / /mnt/raid-md0

    * Create needed device nodes:

# cd /mnt/raid-md0/dev/ && MAKEDEV generic
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Using rsync from single user mode still left /mnt/md0/dev empty. I read up in "makedev generic" and it seems to be a shotgun fix
adding way more then is needed. Is there a way to create just what is in /dev?