Re: [Hampshire] software mirror

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Author: Steve Kemp
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To: Hampshire LUG Discussion List
Subject: Re: [Hampshire] software mirror
On Tue Dec 11, 2007 at 20:42:16 +0000, Adam Trickett wrote:
> On Tuesday 11 Dec 2007, Adrian Bridgett wrote:


> > grub-install /dev/sda
> > grub-install /dev/sdb
> >
> > That should be it IIRC. Worth checking mind :)
>
> Seems to work okay, grub installed on the first drive, so I just manually
> added it to the second.
>
> Now if I can be bothered, I should be able to remove either file system and it
> should still work in the VM!


Yes :)

One thing to make sure is that you have swap on RAID too - too often
I've seen people use /dev/md0 for the root filesystem then use
non-raided swap. If you have a dying disk and local-swap your machine
will most likely panic and die..

Steve
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