Re: [PLUG] /etc on a separate partition

[Wayne Dawson <jongalt@pinn.net>]

At 12:53 AM 3/21/03 -0500, you wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 12:36:52PM -0800, Wayne Dawson wrote:
> > Well thanks, but I don't just want to "make more partitions".  The purpose
> > is to minimize the effort and time that would be required in various
> > failure/recovery scenarios.  If my /etc resides on raid, all the specific
> > config stuff for my system is protected by being on the raid.  Also, my
> > raid is in a separate enclosure from the cpu, so if the computer itself
> > dies, I want to be able to take the scsi interface card and raid enclosure
> > over to an arbitrary computer and be up and running again with a 
> minimum of
> > hassle.
>
> well, why don't you just put the whole root filesystem on the raid then?

Um.  Thanks for the suggestion.  It's what I've been trying to do for 
several days, and I can't seem to make it work.  There are other things I 
can try (I haven't looked at initrd for example), but it's not worth 
spending more time on, unless somebody can give me a short and clear 
procedure for doing it.

Here's what I have, in case anybody wants to do that.  Red Hat 8, two SCSI 
disks in an enclosure that is separate from the CPU, with an Adaptec SCSI 
interface card.  I am currently running the stock RH8 kernel with a driver 
for the Adaptec card running as a module, but I have a kernel that I 
compiled with the SCSI driver and RAID compiled in.  Any takers?

Thanks,
Wayne

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