From oracle-l-bounce@freelists.org Wed Mar 3 14:37:08 2004 Return-Path: Received: from air189.startdedicated.com (root@localhost) by orafaq.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id i23Kb8t28847 for ; Wed, 3 Mar 2004 14:37:08 -0600 X-ClientAddr: 206.53.239.180 Received: from turing.freelists.org (freelists-180.iquest.net [206.53.239.180]) by air189.startdedicated.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id i23Kb8o28842 for ; Wed, 3 Mar 2004 14:37:08 -0600 Received: from turing (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by turing.freelists.org (Avenir Technologies Mail Multiplex) with ESMTP id 6A981395216; Wed, 3 Mar 2004 15:37:32 -0500 (EST) Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list oracle-l); Wed, 03 Mar 2004 15:36:27 -0500 (EST) X-Original-To: oracle-l@freelists.org Delivered-To: oracle-l@freelists.org Received: from relay.pair.com (relay.pair.com [209.68.1.20]) by turing.freelists.org (Avenir Technologies Mail Multiplex) with SMTP id DB65B3950F5 for ; Wed, 3 Mar 2004 15:36:24 -0500 (EST) Received: (qmail 40429 invoked from network); 3 Mar 2004 20:40:17 -0000 Received: from hia-red-35.jamadots.com (HELO ThinkpadX30.gennick.com) (12.37.13.98) by relay.pair.com with SMTP; 3 Mar 2004 20:40:17 -0000 X-pair-Authenticated: 12.37.13.98 Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2004 15:40:16 -0500 From: Jonathan Gennick X-Mailer: The Bat! (v1.62 Christmas Edition) Personal X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <44423044676.20040303154016@gennick.com> To: Jerome Roa Cc: jroa@uchicago.edu Subject: Re: Mirror In-Reply-To: <5.2.1.1.2.20040303092603.017caa18@nsit-imap.uchicago.edu> References: <5.2.1.1.2.20040303092603.017caa18@nsit-imap.uchicago.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-archive-position: 239 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: oracle-l-bounce@freelists.org Errors-To: oracle-l-bounce@freelists.org X-original-sender: jonathan@gennick.com Precedence: normal Reply-To: oracle-l@freelists.org X-list: oracle-l Wednesday, March 3, 2004, 10:28:32 AM, Jerome Roa (jroa@uchicago.edu) wrote: JR> Does anybody know any software that does software mirrors JR> on disk drives that runs on Suse Linux Enterprise Server 8.0? That software is built in, though it's not explained well in SuSE's manual. I've only just figured out how to make it work. Hopefully I'm recalling this correctly. When I partitioned my system during my recent install of SLES 8, I did the following: 1. Created a boot partion. Not sure how large I made this. I think I gave it 10 sectors. 2. Created a swap partition on each drive. 3. Created two, big partitions for software RAID. I'm sorry, I don't have the partitioning screen to look at, but you have to choose not to format these partitions, and you must give them the type set aside for RAID partitions. If you have the screen in front of you, you can probably figure this step out. 4. After creating two partitions as per step 3, I clicked the RAID button at the bottom of the installer screen. This brought up a new screen listing my two RAID partitions. I clicked, or double-clicked, or did something, to create a new mount-point using the two partitions in a RAID-1 configuration. I'm a bit embarrassed at the vagueness of these instructions, but I've only ever gone through this once. I hope my memory of what I did is of some help. Caveat: I have yet to "test" my RAID-1 setup. One of these days I'll yank a drive out and see whether my data survives, but I haven't reached that day yet. Best regards, Jonathan Gennick --- Brighten the corner where you are http://Gennick.com * 906.387.1698 * mailto:jonathan@gennick.com Join the Oracle-article list and receive one article on Oracle technologies per month by email. To join, visit http://four.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/oracle-article, or send email to Oracle-article-request@gennick.com and include the word "subscribe" in either the subject or body. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com ---------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send email to: oracle-l-request@freelists.org put 'unsubscribe' in the subject line. -- Archives are at http://www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/ FAQ is at http://www.freelists.org/help/fom-serve/cache/1.html -----------------------------------------------------------------