Karl, Em Ter 14 Ago 2007, Karl Larsen escreveu: > I did a Goggle search and found Linux Journal, Home, RAID-1, > Part 1 and 2 by Joe Malmin and Ron Shaker, 2002-08-13 and I have > read it like a book once. It talks to the raid-1 being a superior > way to back up your computer. I learned that raid mirrors > partitions not hard drives. You can use any two hard drives or even > the same hard drive! I plan to make a raid 1 using the two hard > drives I have in this computer right now :-) But note that RAID is not a substitute for backup. It does not let you recover an older version of a modified file, nor a file deleted by accident. You need backups even if you setup RAID 1. > > One is a 30 GB and this is a 160 GB but f7 is in a partition of > 12 GB. So I can make a 12 GB partition on the 30 GB HD and make a > raid 1 system between /dev/hda2 and /dev/hdb5. > > The book says if /proc/mdstat exists, you have raid support in > your kernel. I do :-) > > The book set up raid 1 on Red Hat 7 and Debian Potato with the > early kernels 8-) It seems the tools you've read about are a bit outdated. Research a bit about LVM before you setup RAID in your machine. []'s Marcelo
