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From: Robbie Hatley on 4 May 2010 16:01

unruh wrote:

> That is what, 5 years old? Things have changed, and new security holes
> have been found. ... Redhat 9 is an old system. Again, things have changed,
> especially support in Linux for NTFS -- both reading and writing.

Things have changed, all right. The latest Fedora won't install on
my machine. The installation disk itself won't even run; it freezes
a few seconds into the install every time.

My existing system, however, works great. But it needs a Liaison drive
between Windows and Linux.

> You do not say what kind of raid it is 0,1,2,3,4,5,6,.... It makes a
> difference.

It's the redundant kind. Straight redundancy, no striping.
The idea was to provide a constant running backup of everything on
a separate physical hard disk, not to increase speed or any of the
other benefits which various RAID types can provide.

As for the RAID number, I'm not sure Red Hat 9 software RAID even
uses those. I don't recall having it present me with anything
like 7 different kinds of RAID. It just said "want RAID (yes/no)?
[yes] "Fine. Which too partitions?" [selected] "Fine. RAID array
created." or some damn such thing. (This was some years ago, so
I couldn't tell you exactly.)

But I'm finding now that my need for a separate FAT32 partition
outweighs the data-safety advantages of RAID. Hence my desire to
free-up that second partition.

> Anyway, why not backup, reformat, and copy back.

Using what operating system? The functionality for restoring data to
a Linux partition is in the data being restored.

Hmmm. I could use some kind of Linux boot CD, perhaps.

Saying I did that, what settings do I need to change to tell Linux to
look for / on the new EXT2 partition, instead of the old RAID array?

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Cheers,
Robbie Hatley
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From: Robbie Hatley on 4 May 2010 16:21

On 2010-05-04 12:16 PM, David Brown wrote:

> ... got an extra disk handy, such as a USB hard disk?

Yep. Huge firewire external hard disk.

> Boot from a live CD

I'm not familiar with the terminology "live CD". You mean a bootable
Linux CD, with some part of the Linux OS's functionality on it?

> make a partition on the USB disk that is slightly bigger than
> than the original raided partition, and use "dd" to copy the raw ext
> partition from the raid device onto the USB disk partition. If the
> original raid was level 0, then you need to use the live CD's
> partitioning tools to shrink the copied partition to a suitable size
> (aim for slightly under the size of the software raid physical
> partition). Delete your raid partitions, make a new clean partition on
> disk 1, and use dd to copy the raw ext partition back to it. Run a
> resize to re-fit it exactly to the partition.

Ok, all that I can do pretty easily (provided I can find out what
a "live CD" is and how to acquire or make one). I can use
PowerQuest PartitionMagic (my partition manager of choice) to
handle all the repartitioning. (That's how I made the triple booting
system in the first place.) And this "DD" you mention to copy stuff.

Saying I did that, how do I set up Linux to look for / on the new
EXT2 partition instead of the old RAID array? It must involve
changing something in /boot to look for / on device hda6 or whatever
the new EXT2 partition is going to be. But I don't know where that
setting is.

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Cheers,
Robbie Hatley
perl -le 'print "\154o\156e\167o\154f\100w\145ll\56c\157m"'
perl -le 'print "\150ttp\72//\167ww.\167ell.\143om/~\154onewolf/"'
From: J G Miller on 4 May 2010 16:24
On Tuesday, May 4th, 2010 at 13:01:54h -0700, Robbie Hatley woffled:

> As for the RAID number, I'm not sure Red Hat 9 software RAID even uses
> those.

If that is what you really think, you need to get somebody who
actually has some understanding of administering Unix/Linux systems
to look after your machine because you are indicating that you really
do not have a clue and have not consulted the documentation.

<http://www.redhat.COM/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-9-Manual/custom-guide/s1-raid-levels.html>


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From: J G Miller on 4 May 2010 16:33
On Tue, 04 May 2010 13:21:17 -0700, Robbie Hatley wrote:

> Saying I did that, how do I set up Linux to look for / on the new EXT2
> partition instead of the old RAID array? It must involve changing
> something in /boot to look for / on device hda6 or whatever the new EXT2
> partition is going to be. But I don't know where that setting is.

Again you are proving that you do not have a clue at all about
administering a Unix/Linux system.

Do not touch anything and get somebody capable to do the work.

From: J G Miller on 4 May 2010 16:40
On Tue, 04 May 2010 11:34:19 -0700, Robbie Hatley wrote:

> But I don't know how to do this. Can anyone here offer some insight?

Get somebody who knows what to set up SAMBA on this machine. Transfer all of your
data files from the Linux RAID file system over to a Windoze machine via the local
network.

Since you indicated that you are going to use the current RAID file system for
Windoze, thereby making it an entirely Windoze machine, you obviously do not
care about the Red Hat Linux 9 operating system files.

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