raid-one

[Les Mikesell]

Karl Larsen wrote:
>>
>    Yes well  mdadm --detail /dev/md5 tells me that this hard drive which 
> does have labels needs to get the labels removed and then get the 
> partition changed to fd. I think then I will not be able to boot the god 
> dam thing! So before the change you do something with mkinitrd and that 
> sure is not something to look for :-(
> 
>    Getting just a simple raid-1 running and doing so right is a pain.

There are 2 simple approaches:
  1) Build the raid during the install.  Unfortunately you can't do the 
'missing' trick, so you need to be able to overwrite both drives at that 
point.
  2) Don't worry about the system portion that you can re-install.  Add 
2 drives mounted as your /home and you don't need to change the boot 
setup.

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   Les Mikesell
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