Stephen Gran on 1 Dec 2005 21:53:37 -0000


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Re: [PLUG] New Linux Machines and cloning? 

On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 04:40:12PM -0500, Dan Roberts said:
> That should work I imagine..
> Is there a way to say to linux to detach/reattach mirrors if need be?

If you're using software raid arrays, it's not that hard, mdadm has ways
to do this.  The only thing I would be wary of is losing the boot sector
- lilo and grub (last I checked) only write to the boot sector of the
physical drive (e.g. hda) and not the logical drive.

Take care,
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