Re: RAID and /boot partitions

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redhatdude@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
Hi,
When creating a RAID 1 in F9.
Does it make sense to make the /boot partition on both discs a RAID too?
I have /boot and / as RAID 1 (dm-0 and dm-1). If I disconnect one of the drives, the computer freezes. Isn't the RAID supposed to keep it running?
I'm really new to this, so any help is appreciated.

Are you sure /boot is on a raid partition, and not on a dm pseudo device? If you created a partition on your drives, made a raid-1 of the two partitions (100-200MB is good), and then did whatever with the rest of your disk, you should be fine.

If you made one huge raid array and used dm to break it up, you are not fine. Do "cat /proc/mdstat" and see that there is a small raid-1 for boot, and "df" to check that /dev/mdX is mounted on /boot. If that's the case you should be good, otherwise you probably don't boot off one drive.

NOTE: your BIOS may not boot off the 2nd drive if the 1st drive is present and has data errors, should if the 1st drive is dead. Some BIOS do, some don't.

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