Re: software raid on / ?

vertigo <spam@xxxxxxx> wrote:

I have two identical hard discs, and i would like to use them in mirror
raid for / partition.
I looked in handbook, but there were examples of creating raid but on non
/ (non system partitions/disks). Is it possible to have / partition which
is mirrored on two different disks ?

http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200502/diskmirror.html

HTH,
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