Tidbits from my daily-life http://blog.morgan.hk Bits and things of interest Wed, 02 Nov 2011 06:32:51 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 蘇皮 | SoPei Leather Workshop http://blog.morgan.hk/2011/11/02/%e8%98%87%e7%9a%ae-sopei-leather-workshop/ http://blog.morgan.hk/2011/11/02/%e8%98%87%e7%9a%ae-sopei-leather-workshop/#comments Wed, 02 Nov 2011 06:32:51 +0000 morgan http://blog.morgan.hk/?p=719 https://www.facebook.com/pages/蘇皮-SoPei-Leather-Workshop/

http://sopei-leather-workshop.tumblr.com/

 

 

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]]> http://blog.morgan.hk/2011/11/02/piet-hein-eek/feed/ 0 Move Linux box from single disk to RAID1 using Intel Matrix http://blog.morgan.hk/2011/10/12/move-linux-box-from-single-disk-to-raid1-using-intel-matrix/ http://blog.morgan.hk/2011/10/12/move-linux-box-from-single-disk-to-raid1-using-intel-matrix/#comments Wed, 12 Oct 2011 03:49:41 +0000 morgan http://blog.morgan.hk/?p=685 Last week I had to transfer an old linux server to new hardware. Since the new machine supports “fake RAID” through the “Intel Matrix Storage Manager”. The main issue with that is that it does not support Linux in a straight-forward way. Sure, you can use MDADM but you need to build the array from scratch. Since the RAID is software based (not at the OS level, but ROM level), it only has limited capabilities and the feature that interests us the most is the “array rebuild” option. Every time you loose a disk or the array needs to be rebuilt, you have to boot into windows to either migrate to a new HDD or repair the array. What I wanted to do was to move my single disk setup to a mirrored RAID 1 setup. I tried to image the old HDD to the array directly, but it would not boot, I then thought to try to image the old HDD to one of the disks of the array and then rebuild the array. This was the solution that worked,  following are the simple steps I took.

You need:

  • 1 original disk
  • 2 disks that will form your RAID array
  • 1 usb key or DVD with clonezilla (I used my USB katana that has clonezilla on it)
  • 1 disk with Windows and Intel Matrix Storage Manager installed (could be substituted to a WinPE disk if you have time to waste creating the disk)

Step 1 – Create array

Sorry, not screenshots, but you should be able to handle this on your own

  • Unplug all disks, but the ones you want to use for your raid array
  • Open the Intel Matrix Storage Manager by pressing CTRL+I
  • Create new RAID 1 array using those two drives, using the whole disk.
  • N.B. the new Array size should be the same size or bigger than your original linux install

Step 2 – Clone Source HDD to Disk1 of Array

  • Reboot

Step 3 – Rebuild Array

  • Unplug USB drive with clonezilla
  • Unplug original Linux drive
  • Plug in second drive of RAID array
  • Plug in windows drive
  • you should see that screen with Rebuild in yellow):

  • Boot from windows drive
  • This should show up, wait for it to be done and reboot (if you don’t see that, open the Intel Matrix Storage Manager and rebuild array):

Step4 – you’re done

  • Unplug windows drive
  • plug-back all other drives you need
  • boot from Volume0 (or whatever your array is called)
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source: http://wiki.nginx.org/Main

Some websites you might like run using nginx:

http://www.wordpress.com/

http://www.hulu.com/

http://www.github.com/

http://www.ohloh.net/

http://www.sourceforge.net/

http://torrentreactor.net/

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Many people think that Linux is immune to the type of Autorun attacks that have plagued Windows systems with malware over the years. However, there have been many advances in the usability of Linux as a desktop OS – including the addition of features that can allow Autorun attacks.

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