I added a new firmware raid1 drive as my /home directory and now i have problems with my linux system?

Question

Well I created a firmware raid and mounted it as /home after i had copied everything from my /home directory. However when i copied everything back from my temporary home directory to home and restarted my system. My LXDE menu button did not list my applications nor my system commands and my terminal did not respond to any programs in my /usr directory (is yumex in /bin or /usr/bin because that did work kinda it didnt accept my password though anyways) only /bin and theoretically /sbin however i could not upgrade my user with su to gain access to /sbin program. I believe i corrupted my environmental variables however i am not sure if that is my problem or i have a deeper problem.I am becoming experienced with linux however this is the first time i have ever needed to mount a secondary drive. If a more experienced linux user could let me know what i did wrong and what i need to do in the future to avoid such problems i would be grateful as i am in the works for adding a second raid hard drive for test server functions .

Thank you all.

Answer 1

LVM or software raid is usually a lot more predictable then firmware raid, and usually has better performance. (Plus very few drivers support it) It's almost always better tested and vetted as well. Really there is no reason to mess with firmware based RAID in Linux as it already has an excellent subsystem to implement raid on the file-system level.



Your problem may be that you copied without preserving permisions

Answer 2

Kind of hard to understand what your problem is.

Usually you can login as root from the console without the graphics running, and that does not require /home, so it's easier to debug things.

You can also boot a recovery CD, and again you'd have root access to the filesystem without even needing a bootable system.

Answer 3

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