From: "andrew cooke" <andrew@...>
Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2007 07:52:29 -0300 (CLST)
I have re-installed SuSE in an attempt to fix https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=334106 (it didn't help). So this post is a test to see whether posting still works. The install was "interesting" - I don't have any free disks (or connections on the mobo), so I reduced the RAID arrays by one disk (by making that disk's partitions "bad" in each array it contributed to) and then reformatted it, giving me the same data as before (on broken/unsafe RAID) and an extra disk. I then copied critical data to that disk (it fitted!) and then reformatted the remaining three disks (to avoid this problem in future I made home a separate set of partitions/array from /, and added an extra / for rolling over installs so that I can copy configs). Finally (I thought) I installed on the smaller arrays, copied the data back from the free disk, and reformatted and added the free disk back in. Unfortunately, the final step in adding the free disk to the last array (/) failed. So I ended up having to install again (but by then the data was on home, separate from /). So the new partition scheme is: /dev/md0 raid 1 /boot 100MB /devsd[a-d]1 98.7MB /dev/md1 raid 5 swap 1GB /devsd[a-d]2 3GB /dev/md2 raid 5 / 10GB /devsd[a-d]5 29.5GB /dev/md3 raid 5 /next 10GB /devsd[a-d]6 29.5GB /dev/md4 raid 5 /home rest /devsd[a-d]7 817.9GB with /srv linked to /home/srv (since it tends to be stuff that doesn't change on re-install) and /next being where the next OS install will go. Andrew