On Fri Apr 10, 2009 at 01:45:00PM -0700, Timothy D. Lenz wrote: > Great, for every bit of nudge forward I end up a step or two back. Not > I have to figure out this copy stuff. Is there any easy way to do some > sort of compair after cp/rsync to see if/what was missed? Creating yet > another botable disk to get the copy over to the array would be a bit > of a pain. Might be easyer to pull the hda from one computer, stick it > in another or usb case and copy to a temp storage area. on the other > computer. Then put the drive back and copy from the temp storage to > the array over then network. Nether computer has any ftp or web > servers or a desktop. The older computer with the 3 sata drives does > have mysql installed because I started to mess with setting up mythtv > but never finished. > The easiest option is to use a bootable CD - there's plenty of linux CDs around (have a look at http://linuxiso.org - my preferred one is GRML)). Otherwise, yes, putting the drive into another system and doing the copy there would work fine. > As for the other reply, the sata drives each have 3 primary partitions > all set to type fd and formated with ext3. I was going to try ext4 for > the main storage of the newer system but I found there is a problem > with kernels .27 and newer on nforce2 and newer boards. some sort of > problem with the bios and apci. How do I find out which superblocks > version is used? > Either "mdadm -D" on the array, or "mdadm -E" on one of the partitions will show you the version. Cheers, Robin -- ___ ( ' } | Robin Hill <robin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> | / / ) | Little Jim says .... | // !! | "He fallen in de water !!" |
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