From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Max Waterman Subject: Re: moving failing system disk to 2xnew RAID1 Date: Sat, 24 Dec 2005 17:51:41 +0800 Message-ID: References: <8241650853653d3c5425104a1fb228b0@idgmail.se> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <8241650853653d3c5425104a1fb228b0@idgmail.se> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids Thanks for the links. One last question....does the fedora core (specifically version 4) installation's RAID install use md for RAID? (I guess I'm a little unclear on how the different Linux raid solutions differ, if at all). Max. Henrik wrote: > Hi Max > > If you are moving you data archives it is "that simple". If you want to run your entire system on top of a software RAID1 I suggest one of the many "run-root-ontop-of-software-raid" tutorials out there. > > http://www.tcm.phy.cam.ac.uk/~mr349/ide_raid_howto.html (one of them). > > A bunch of others: http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/HOWTO-INDEX/os.html > (search for "root" inside document). > > If you are using debian you are (as usual?) blessed: http://alioth.debian.org/download.php/668/rootraiddoc.97.html > > That will get you started and we'll wait for the "not so simple" questions that might arise. > > Obviously the easist way is to first get the RAID1 running, than copy the data and finally- the delicate details of making a bootup possible from the RAID1. > > Good luck and merry christmas by the way! :-) > > /Henrik Holst > > -----Original message----- > From: Max Waterman davidmaxwaterman+gmane@fastmail.co.uk > Date: Sat, 24 Dec 2005 09:07:19 +0100 > To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org > Subject: Re: moving failing system disk to 2xnew RAID1 > >> Andy Smith wrote: >>> On Sat, Dec 24, 2005 at 09:27:28AM +0800, Max Waterman wrote: >>>> Max Waterman wrote: >>>>> What would the procedure be for moving the data off my (single) Maxtor >>>>> onto a RAID1 of 2 WD800JBs? >>>>> >>>>> Max. >>>> Well, I didn't get a response to this question :| >>> All three disks are in the same machine? If so, create the RAID 1 >>> and then copy the files over onto it.. Sorry this seems too simple >>> so I probably have misunderstood the question. >> Maybe, maybe not... >> >> The gotcha, in my mind, is that this is the boot disk (to all intents >> and purposes, the only disk in the machine). >> >> But maybe it's still simple? >> >> Max. >> >> - >> To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in >> the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org >> More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html >