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On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 6:40 PM, Joseph <syscon780@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> On 04/01/10 17:43, Mark Knecht wrote: |
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>> On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 4:02 PM, Paul Hartman |
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>> <paul.hartman+gentoo@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>>> On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 5:48 PM, Joseph <syscon780@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>>>> I have two identical HD in the box and want to duplicate sda to sdb; |
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>>>> sdb is not even partitioned. |
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>>>> I think I could do: |
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>>>> dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb |
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>>>> but I need to boot from CD isn't it? |
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>>> Yes, basically, boot from USB or CD and use ddrescue to clone it, then |
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>>> edit your fstab and I think you should be good. |
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>>> RAID1 would help if a drive physically dies, but if you had any |
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>>> filesystem corruption or anything you'd just have an identically |
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>>> corrupt copy on the second disk. |
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>> A big part of my struggles over the last few days has been with mdadm |
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>> & RAID1. I'm learning that we don't want to send someone down that |
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>> path unless he has the right sort of disks. I'm having to deal with |
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>> returns and reordering due to this. |
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>> People should be aware of what is really required to do RAID before |
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>> they get started so they don't duplicate my trials. I wasn't and I'm |
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>> paying for it. (Almost literally if I don't get the drives in the |
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>> mail!) ;-) |
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>> Cheers, |
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>> Mark |
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> So what you are folks saying is to stay away from RAID-1, beside as Paul |
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> mention if I get any corruption and/or configuration (due to ebuild) with |
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> RAID I'll be screwed anyhow. |
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> So my best option is bootable CD and: |
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> dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb |
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> But I'm kind of confused as to how to edit the "sdb" second drive. |
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> I know I'll have to edit at lest: grub.conf and fstab |
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> But how? |
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> 1.) Both disk are bootable, (have a boot sector) if I disconnect first one |
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> sda, I think the second one will be recognize automatically as "sda" isn't |
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> it? |
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> 2.) If configure second drive after copying as "sdb" will it still boot if |
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> fist disk is disconnected? |
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> -- |
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> Joseph |
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With only 2 disks I personally think you're on the right path. With 3 |
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disks I'm personally planning on RAID1 using 3 copies. |
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If you disconnect the first disk (current sda) then most likely the |
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original second disk (old sdb) becomes the new first disk. (sda) In |
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that case no edits are required. However if you make them both |
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bootable then assuming your BIOS supports it you can tell it to boot |
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from the second disk. If you want the second disk booting to use the |
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second disk's copy of Gentoo then you need to edit things to use sdb, |
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not sda. that's probably overly complicated for what you are trying to |
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do. I say make the copy, then disconnect the first drive physically |
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and give it a try. |
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This all presumes that you comtinue down this path with by hand copies. |
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My comment about RAID was that I am learning the hard (alas expensive) |
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way that not all disks can actually do RAID, at least not Linux |
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software RAID, and really be usable. |
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Cheers, |
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Mark |