Re: Installing software RAID1 on Redhat 6.0

[Kevin Colby <kevinc grainsystems com>]

kevin openthebox com wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I have a Dell Poweredge 2300 (no hardware raid controller) with
> two 9 Gig hard drives.  I want to set up a Raid1 and have one
> drive mirror the other drive.  I have installed Redhat 6.0
> Commerce Server package on one of the drives and have not yet
> partioned the other one.  I did install the Raid .90 package.
> 
> Is what I want to do possible?

Yes.

> And does anyone have hints on how to do it?

Well, Software RAID is not the simplest of things, but you
can do it.  The biggest problem you'll have is that you have
only two drives and are trying to mirror the root filesystem.
This is a bit more complex than the usual.

In any event, you should check out the HOWTOs and goto
http://linas.org/linux/raid.html

	- Kevin Colby
	  kevinc grainsystems com