On Fri, 21 Feb 2003, Lewis Shobbrook wrote: > Hi Gordon, > > I tries every trick under the sun, cpio, cp -ax, tar, rsync... > As soon as I updated to testing all files copied on the same drive same > partition, same raidtab etc. etc. > All the files copied without failure, including symlinks, which noteably > failed with the previous 15 frustrating attempts. > > Hmmm.... Not sure where the problems came from, did you format your > /mdx using mke2fs? Yes. When I get time I want to look at XFS, but last time I looked (about 6 weeks ago) they didn't have patches for 2.4.20, and I needed a particular PCI-IDE card that only 2.4.19 and upwards seemed to support )-: > > drogon @ agate: df -h > > Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on > > /dev/md0 235M 18M 205M 8% / > > /dev/md1 1.9G 905M 920M 50% /usr > > /dev/md2 35G 12G 21G 34% /var This particular box has 2 disks all on raid1 mirrors. I started by partitioning and installing onto 4 primary partitions, hda1, hda3 and hda4 (hda2 is swap, but only later on). Once I had the basic system installed on the primary disk, and built a custom kernel and tested it, I used fdisk to create an identical partition table on hdc, then made hda2 and hdc2 an md device, mkfs'd it, mounted it under /mnt and used cpio to copy / into it. Then changed the /mnt/etc/lilo.conf, ran lilo -r /mnt, changed /mnt/etc/fstab (/ is now under /dev/md0!) and rebooted. Once that was OK, I made an md device out of /dev/hda1 and /dev/hdc1 and basically reversed the procedure to move root back onto the first partition on the disks. then I used the now spare partition to temporarily copy /usr and /var while turning them into md devices. It takes a long time and I wish I could do it at install time like Red Hat does, but maybe Debian 4 might have that in it! I've built several like this, some with raid1 for / and raid5 for the other partitions, depending on the number of disks installed and the customer requirements. I don't use a separate /boot filesystem - never quite understood that, but my unix dealings before Linux was SunOs & Solaris... I use the raidtools as suplied with woody - I am not using madm at all (old habits die hard and I can hand-edit an /etc/raditab without thinking about it) Gordon - 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
