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Newer page: version 3 Last edited on Tuesday, July 12, 2005 7:27:22 pm by CriggieCriggie
Older page: version 2 Last edited on Tuesday, March 1, 2005 5:47:04 pm by DanielLawson Revert
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 * Reboot, remove the old disks, and hopefully boot off the new ones. 
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+I cheat a little when building a linux box that is primarily a server rather than a workstation. Normally a linux server has plenty of disks, and quite often more than one. So I attempt to have a completely separate root drive from any data drives. For example - a 36 Gb IDE root drive and four 275 Gb drives in a software RAID-0  
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+ belt:~# df -h  
+ Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on  
+ /dev/hda1 18G 1.5G 16G 9% /  
+ /dev/md0 1.1T 739G 379G 67% /backup  
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+Doing it this way means that the data drives could be moved to another box with minimal fuss, and if a data drive goes then the root drive can still boot. The root drive speed doesn't really matter once the machine is up, but the data drives do.