On Sun, 2004-05-02 at 12:22, Frank Reichenbacher wrote: > I'm trying to set up a second IDE drive I installed in my RH 7.0 box to > mirror the original drive using mirrordir as a backup for when it fails. > I am following the directions on p. 446 of the Red Hat Linux 7 Bible, by > Christopher Negus. > > I've got the drive installed and partitioned. That part is okay. > > I ran mkdir: > > mkdir -p /mirror/home > After installing the drive and partitioning it you need to format the partition as a particular type of filesystem. Ext2 is a reasonable choice: mkfs.ext2 /dev/hdb9 WARNING!!! Be sure /dev/hdb9 is the new partition that as yet has no data on it. Once it is formatted you will be able to mount it: mkdir -p /mirror/home mount /dev/hdb9 /mirror/home You won't even need to specify the filesystem type since the mount command will be able to figure it out by looking at the partition. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
