Software RAID

[Nigel Wade]

Zane C.B. wrote:

>I don't like the idea of mirroring partitions because
> replacing a disk means having to repartition/slice the disk.
> 

To copy the partition table from hda to hdc all you need is:

sfdisk -d /dev/hda | sfdisk -f /dev/hdc

How do you replace an entire disk in a running raid?


To the OP:

The RedHat docs have a basic guide on setting up a RAID 1 mirror during 
installation:
http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-4-Manual/sysadmin-guide/ch-software-raid.html


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