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"alex" <ntnewsNOSPAM@hrz3.hrz.tu-darmstadt.de> writes:

>> - You have already mounted the partition you want to add to the
>>   raid. This does not work!
>hm... not real... i've only created the partitions and yast1 told me
>something like "formating now"... i've not set any mountpoint on this
>partions... i'me newbie at linux but i mean i haven't ever mounted the
>part... how to find out?

Simply type "mount" and it will show you the mounted partitions. In
your case the problem probably is that you have mounted /dev/hda1 as /.

I doubt that the raidtools allow to mirror a mounted system, and I
also doubt that you can create a raid without destroying existing data.


>devices!? now i'm absolutly confused... for e.g. in winnt (don't kill me
>please) you can create everytime in a running system a mirror. if you like

I do not Windows NT. It is simply that way: If someone needs that
feature and s/he is capable of programming, s/he may implement it. It
seems, like no one was yet able or willing to do it.

>you can remove this, too. no stress... if i do a mke2fs, will i clear my
>/dev/hda? with this execute????

Yes, you will.

>> The partition type fd for raid is set via fdisk. E.g. fdisk /dev/hda
>> and then change the type their. This is only necessary, if you want to
>if so - seams to be a special partion type... i cannot found this part type
>in yast1...

Support for raids is apparently still missing in YaST.

>i will thing it is compiled inside! on the swap part it is working and it is
>loading while the boot process...

Having the root file system to boot from the raid is more
complicated. This will not work with the default SuSE kernel,
unfortunately. Either this will be fixed in a next release or you have to
built your own kernel to do that.

Andreas
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