Thanks you for your long reply ! it,s really appreciated franck On 12/12/05, Christofer C. Bell <christofer.c.bell@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 12/12/05, Franck Y <franck110@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Martin, > > Does it delete my files ? > > And when i will make the raid configuration ? > > I'd recommend allowing someone else to look these directions over, but > I believe this will create your mirrored devices while preserving your > data. I'm not terribly familar with LVM under Linux so again, I'd > encourage you to let someone else look these steps over for > correctness before using them. > > These are basically step by step commands that create a 2 new md > devices for your 2 mirrored partitions, each mirror containing only 1 > device. These devices then have your data copied over to them. After > the data is copied onto the md devices, the additional disks are > added. The md subsystem then takes care of syncing the mirrors > automatically. > > mdadm --create /dev/md0 --level=1 --raid-devices=2 /dev/hda2 missing > mdadm --create /dev/md1 --level=1 --raid-devices=2 /dev/hdc2 missing > mke3fs /dev/md0 > mke3fs /dev/md1 > mkdir /mnt/md0 > mkdir /mnt/md1 > mkdir /mnt/hda1 > mkdir /mnt/hdc1 > mount -t ext3 /dev/md0 /mnt/md0 > mount -t ext3 /dev/md1 /mnt/md1 > mount -t ext3 /dev/hda2 /mnt/hda1 > mount -t ext3 /dev/hdc2 /mnt/hdc1 > cp -av /mnt/hda2 /mnt/md0 > cp -av /mnt/hdc2 /mnt/md1 > umount /mnt/md0 > umount /mnt/md1 > umount /mnt/hda1 > umount /mnt/hdc1 > mdadm --add /dev/md0 /dev/hda1 > mdadm --add /dev/md1 /dev/hdc1 > mdadm --detail --scan | head -1 > /etc/mdadm.conf > > You'll want to create the appopriate entries in /etc/fstab to ensure > these are mounted at boot time. Also, you'll probably want to edit > /etc/mdadm.conf to add the following above each ARRAY line: > > DEVICE partitions > MAILADDR root > > At the end of each ARRAY line, you'll want to add the option auto=md > -- this will force mdadm to create the appropriate md devices in /dev > should they not exist at the time the mirrored volumes are found at > boot. > > Best of luck! > > -- > Chris > > "I trust the Democrats to take away my money, which I can afford. I > trust the Republicans to take away my freedom, which I cannot." > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > -- Franck
