On Friday 06 January 2006 16:38, Jack Howarth wrote: > In installing Fedora Core 4 on a new workstation here, the owner of > the machine decided he wanted RAID-1 on all of his partitions except for > the swap which he set up as RAID-0 across the two drives. I pointed out > that this would make the machine fault intolerant since it will likely > crash if half the swap disappears with a drive failure. He doesn't mind > that but I am still concerned about the recovery from such a drive failure. > Does anyone know what sequence you would have to go through to recover Replace the bad disk and restore the RAID-1 arrays (mdadm). To boot from the second drive you have to do some map-root-setup tricks with grub (search grub raid1 in google for more info). > in such a situation? Specifically is there a way to boot linux with the > swap disabled for that particular boot? Otherwise I would imagine I'd have > to use a linux rescue cd to edit the fstab on the remaining drive and > change the swap back to a single partition on a single drive. Thanks in > advance for any clarifications on this issue. > Jack The machine will boot fine, just will not have swap at all. Why not use two swap partitions instead of one RAID-0? This way at least one of them will work (if one disk is gone).
