At Tuesday, 15 June 2004, you wrote: >On Tuesday 15 June 2004 07:53, Harland Christofferson wrote: >> this is my fist time installing raid0 on a machine that is not a >> new install. /dev/hda has gobs of good data i don't want to lose. >> /dev/hdc is newly partitioned and formatted before installing the >> raid tools.
*snip* > >> i created a new file /etc/raidtab >> >> raiddev /dev/md0 >> raid-level 1 >> nr-raid-disks 2 >> nr-spare-disks 0 >> persistent-superblock 1 >> device /dev/hda1 >> raid-disk 0 >> device /dev/hdc1 >> raid-disk 1 >> >Above, you said you wanted to install raid0, but your config file indicates >raid1. Double check that your config file really says what you want. typo ... raid1 is what i want. >> >> then, i tried >> $# mkraid md0 >> >> which responded >> $# device md0 is not described in the config file >> >The error message is quite specific. You did not describe device md0 in any >config file. You did describe /dev/md0, however. okay ... will try $# mkraid /dev/md0 > >> i am reluctant to try >> $# mkraid -f /dev/md0 >> >> the force flag just seems scary to me. >> >> any suggestions? > >What is the partition type on /dev/hda1 and /dev/hdc1? If they are not both >FD (Linux raid autodetect), your raid array won't work. the partition type? okay ... new territory for me. they are ext2 w/ ID of 83. they are the boot partitions. > >Note that, if you have data on /dev/hda1 that you want to keep, you should >mark that disk as a failed disk. Then, when you make your raid array, data >won't get erased from /dev/hda1. You can then mount the disk and the raid >and copy the data from one to the other. Once your data is on the raid, >mark the /dev/hda1 disk as a live disk, and the raid will re-sync, and your >data will be intact. i am really glad this did not work the first time. i DO want to keep the data intact on /dev/hda. should i mount each partition of /dev/hdc? what i want to have occur is all partitions on /dev/hda be mirrored on /dev/hdc. > >If the partition type is not causing your problem, let us know and we'll try >something else. > >Justin Guerin > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
