RAID/LVM Root Filesystem on SuSE8.2

[Bill Campbell]

On Thu, Feb 10, 2005, Matthew Carpenter wrote:
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>Speaking of "making the partitions equal or greater in size", I learned
>a slick trick reading this article  (if everybody promises not to tell I
>might scan the few pages and share) was the following line:
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># sfdisk -d /dev/hdc | sfdisk /dev/hda

Shouldn't this be ``sfdisk -d /dev/hda | sfdisk /dev/hdc''?

>This is done once you've copied all the data from /dev/hda to the mirror
>(which only lives on /dev/hdc), and takes /dev/hdc's partitioning scheme
>and duplicates it to /dev/hda.  That's just slicker'n snot.

This is the first time I've see reference to sfdisk, and it looks
like a very handy tool.

Bill
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