RAID?

[Vikki Roemer]

Hi
My computer overheated a few weeks ago and I ended up with some fs
corruption. My mom didn't trust the HD, so she bought me a new one-- so now
I have 2 HDs, a 40 GB (the old one) and a 60 GB (the new one). The 60 is
hda, and the 40 is hdb. So anyway, I was wondering if I could set up some
sort of small, 2-disk RAID array. Would that be a good idea? Or should I
just use the old HD to back up the new one? My computer is running as the
server for my domain-- it's a web server, mail server, and the samba server
for my LAN. If I do set up RAID, what type do you think I should use?

TIA.

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[Rudy Gevaert]

On Sun, Jul 06, 2003 at 05:27:05AM -0400, Vikki Roemer wrote:

> Hi
> My computer overheated a few weeks ago and I ended up with some fs
> corruption. My mom didn't trust the HD, so she bought me a new one-- so now
> I have 2 HDs, a 40 GB (the old one) and a 60 GB (the new one). The 60 is
> hda, and the 40 is hdb. So anyway, I was wondering if I could set up some
> sort of small, 2-disk RAID array. Would that be a good idea? Or should I
> just use the old HD to back up the new one? My computer is running as the
> server for my domain-- it's a web server, mail server, and the samba server
> for my LAN. If I do set up RAID, what type do you think I should use?

Put the two disks on the master and set up raid1.

Rudy

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[Thomas Krennwallner]

Hi!

On Sun Jul 06, 2003 at 05:27:05AM -0400, Vikki Roemer wrote:
[...]

> hda, and the 40 is hdb. So anyway, I was wondering if I could set up some
> sort of small, 2-disk RAID array. Would that be a good idea? Or should I
> just use the old HD to back up the new one? My computer is running as the
> server for my domain-- it's a web server, mail server, and the samba server
> for my LAN. If I do set up RAID, what type do you think I should use?

Take a look at The Software-RAID HOWTO: [1]. It briefly describes the
various RAID levels.

So long
Thomas

1. [url]http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Software-RAID-HOWTO.html[/url]

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[Antonio Rodr]

> On Sun, 2003-07-06 at 05:27, Vikki Roemer wrote:

> > Hi
> > My computer overheated a few weeks ago and I ended up with some fs
> > corruption. My mom didn't trust the HD, so she bought me a new
> > one-- so now I have 2 HDs, a 40 GB (the old one) and a 60 GB (the
> > new one). The 60 is hda, and the 40 is hdb. So anyway, I was

> Will your Mom buy me a hard drive, too? How about Colin, and Jamin,
> and Martin, and Paul, and Pigeon, and Shri, and ... ;)
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From the way the Vikki writes, I would say is a very young person, probably about 12-14. At that age is perfectly right to have a gift from your parent, w/o being afraid of being teased for that reason.
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[Colin Watson]

On Sun, Jul 06, 2003 at 08:26:58PM -0400, Antonio Rodr wrote:

> Mark L. Kahnt wrote:

> > On Sun, 2003-07-06 at 05:27, Vikki Roemer wrote:

> > > My computer overheated a few weeks ago and I ended up with some fs
> > > corruption. My mom didn't trust the HD, so she bought me a new
> > > one-- so now I have 2 HDs, a 40 GB (the old one) and a 60 GB (the
> > > new one). The 60 is hda, and the 40 is hdb. So anyway, I was

>

> > Will your Mom buy me a hard drive, too? How about Colin, and Jamin,
> > and Martin, and Paul, and Pigeon, and Shri, and ... ;)

>
> From the way the Vikki writes, I would say is a very young person,
> probably about 12-14.

Not quite that young, from what I remember from the "survival skills for
teenage geeks" thread a while back. Also I've met very few 12- to
14-year-olds that literate. :)

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[Pigeon]

On Sun, Jul 06, 2003 at 05:27:05AM -0400, Vikki Roemer wrote:

> Hi
> My computer overheated a few weeks ago and I ended up with some fs
> corruption. My mom didn't trust the HD, so she bought me a new one-- so now
> I have 2 HDs, a 40 GB (the old one) and a 60 GB (the new one). The 60 is
> hda, and the 40 is hdb. So anyway, I was wondering if I could set up some
> sort of small, 2-disk RAID array. Would that be a good idea? Or should I
> just use the old HD to back up the new one? My computer is running as the
> server for my domain-- it's a web server, mail server, and the samba server
> for my LAN. If I do set up RAID, what type do you think I should use?

I'd recommend not doing anything with the 40GB drive except running
badblocks -n on it for a few days, just to make sure it's OK. If it's
in any way dubious, using it for RAID is somewhat pointless, and using
it for backup purposes is a snare and a delusion.

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[Thomas Krennwallner]

Hi!

On Mon Jul 07, 2003 at 01:03:28PM +0300, Manolis Tzanidakis wrote:

> Another great (& debian-specific) how-to is :
> [url]http://www.midhgard.it/docs/index/en.html[/url]

The above link didn't work, but here ist the html doc:
[url]http://www.midhgard.it/docs/lvm/html/index.html[/url]

So long
Thomas

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[Vikki Roemer]

On Sun, Jul 06, 2003 at 08:26:58PM -0400, Antonio Rodr wrote:

> > On Sun, 2003-07-06 at 05:27, Vikki Roemer wrote:

> > > Hi
> > > My computer overheated a few weeks ago and I ended up with some fs
> > > corruption. My mom didn't trust the HD, so she bought me a new
> > > one-- so now I have 2 HDs, a 40 GB (the old one) and a 60 GB (the
> > > new one). The 60 is hda, and the 40 is hdb. So anyway, I was

>

> > Will your Mom buy me a hard drive, too? How about Colin, and Jamin,
> > and Martin, and Paul, and Pigeon, and Shri, and ... ;)

>
> From the way the Vikki writes, I would say is a very young person,
> probably about 12-14. At that age is perfectly right to have a gift from
> your parent, w/o being afraid of being teased for that reason.

Well, I'm 17, but I was writing at 05:00, so I think that's a pretty valid
excuse. ;) *shrug*

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[Vikki Roemer]

On Sun, Jul 06, 2003 at 08:03:23PM -0400, Mark L. Kahnt wrote:

> On Sun, 2003-07-06 at 05:27, Vikki Roemer wrote:

> > Hi
> > My computer overheated a few weeks ago and I ended up with some fs
> > corruption. My mom didn't trust the HD, so she bought me a new one-- so now
> > I have 2 HDs, a 40 GB (the old one) and a 60 GB (the new one). The 60 is
> > hda, and the 40 is hdb. So anyway, I was wondering if I could set up some
> > sort of small, 2-disk RAID array. Would that be a good idea? Or should I
> > just use the old HD to back up the new one? My computer is running as the
> > server for my domain-- it's a web server, mail server, and the samba server
> > for my LAN. If I do set up RAID, what type do you think I should use?
> >

> Will your Mom buy me a hard drive, too? How about Colin, and Jamin, and
> Martin, and Paul, and Pigeon, and Shri, and ... ;)

LOL *blush* Nah, I don't think so. :\


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[Vikki Roemer]

On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 04:04:36AM +0100, Pigeon wrote:

>
> I'd recommend not doing anything with the 40GB drive except running
> badblocks -n on it for a few days, just to make sure it's OK. If it's
> in any way dubious, using it for RAID is somewhat pointless, and using
> it for backup purposes is a snare and a delusion.

Hmm, good point. Thanks, I'll do that. :)

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[Jamin W. Collins]

On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 11:40:21AM -0400, Vikki Roemer wrote:

> On Sun, Jul 06, 2003 at 08:03:23PM -0400, Mark L. Kahnt wrote:

> >
> > Will your Mom buy me a hard drive, too? How about Colin, and Jamin,
> > and Martin, and Paul, and Pigeon, and Shri, and ... ;)

>
> LOL *blush* Nah, I don't think so. :\

That's ok. I don't need a new drive... yet. =)

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