On 10/11/05, Antony Gelberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > TAC Forums wrote: > > On 10/10/05, Alvin Oga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >>hi ya tac > >> > >>On Mon, 10 Oct 2005, Antony Gelberg wrote: > >> > >> > >>>TAC Forums wrote: > >>> > >>>>Hi All, > >>>> > >>>>We have a Debian 3.1 Sarge Stable running on a backup server. > >>>> > >>>>The server has 5 Harddisks, two IDE and Three SCSI. > >>>>When we manually form the RAID array with the mdadm command , do an > >>>>mkfs.ext3 on the array and then mount the array ( /dev/md0) on /backup > >>>>every thing is fine. > >> > >>what commands did you manally do ?? > >>- put those into the startup scipts or create raid startup script > > > > > > Well, i did the following > > > > mdadm --create /dev/md0 --level=0 --raid-devices=5 /dev/hda3 > > /dev/hdb1 /dev/sda1 /dev/sdb1 /dev/sdc1 > > > > mkfs.ext3 /dev/md0 > > > > An entry in /etc/fstab to mount the array on /backup > > > > Will try putting them in start up. > > You should not do this. > > > -- Well, the mistory is finally solved.
After every reboot, if i did the following : mdadm --assemble /dev/md0 mount -a The raid would be back , with no data loss too.. Added the above in startup -- TAC Support Team
