On Friday 12 November 2021 10:37:22 Andy Smith wrote: > Hello, > > On Fri, Nov 12, 2021 at 09:22:12AM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > > mdadm --create --verbose /dem/md0 --level=10 --raid-devices=4 > > /dev/sde /dev/sdf /dev/sdg /dev/sdh > > > > should work. > > You may want to create identical partitions on each of the devices > first, and use those instead of the raw unpartitioned devices. > > The reason is that there is hardware (primarily motherboards) out > there that get upset when they see a drive without a partition > table, and just blindly make one, which corrupts your RAID. There > are ASRock motherboards which are known to do this at every boot. > > Such things are broken of course and ideally would be avoided, but > having all your drives corrupted isn't a nice way to discover that > you own one.
yes, makes you want to use the whole maryann for target practice, BTDT, something I am well equipt to do. All for just moving a drives sata cable to a different socket on the previous Asus motherboard, and so is this one, an Asus PRIME Z-370-A-II with a 6 core i5. > > but once assembled, does it need formatted? > > It will be an empty block device like any other. You get to choose > what filesystem to put on it, or use it however else you might use a > block device. Condensing this down bare bones it sounds like I should un-mount it, format each to ext4 and re-create it just in case. And should nuke mdadm.conf before re-creating it. Correct? Thanks Andy. > Cheers, > Andy Cheers, Gene Heskett. -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940) If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. - Louis D. Brandeis Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
