Re: Need Software RAID Help

The carbonbased lifeform Thomas Tootle inspired alt.os.linux.suse with:
Greetings,
I've been googling and read the administrator's guide to software RAID
but I'm still having problems getting it to work. I'm using two 80 Gb WD
hard drives on IDE connections, Epox EP-8RDA mobo, Athlon XP 3000, with
a gig of RAM. I first installed SUSE 10.0 then attempted to add the
second hard drive as a mirror or RAID 1. Couldn't figure that out. So I
tried a fresh install and during the partition section went to RAID tab
to attempt to set up RAID 1 then. It told me to change the partition's
to RAID which I couldn't do as the hard drives were already partitioned.
So I deleted the suggested partitions and then switched them to no
format RAID partitions. When I went to go to the next step I was
informed that I didn't have a swap partition. I'm not that well versed
in partitions and RAID 1 installing (obviously) and previously used the
suggested partitions which worked fine. But I want to use this as a SMB
server and protect vital data thus mirroring. I need a root, swap, boot
and user partitions (I think) and want them to be duplicated on the
second hard drive. Any suggestions?

Delete all existing partitions.
In the Expert option first make swap partitions on both drives, of say
512MB each.
Then use the rest of both drives to make partitions of type 'fd' (Linux
raid auto). Tell YaST to use these partitions for a RAID1 configuration
and to mount '/' on this new drive /dev/md0.
Make your fav. filssystem on the RAID. The two swap partitions will be
recognized and used automagically.

The rest should speak for itself iirc.

Theo
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