Debian and RAID

George Toft plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
Tue, 08 Oct 2002 21:00:51 -0400


Miles Beck wrote:
> 
> George Toft <george@georgetoft.com> said:
> 
> > Did you adjust /etc/fstab to reflect the new location?
> >
> > George
> 
> Nope, I'm really new to Linux and was hoping it would somehow detect the
> changes and boot with no issues.
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Bad assumption.

If you move stuff to a different drive, you need to adjust /etc/fstab.

Also (since I just did this the hard way Saturday), if you don't copy
the files correctly, you will lose very important symlinks and file
permissions.  Tar is your friend.

George