Re: raid/mdadm help -- Part duex {working}

2014-07-04 Thread Rodney D. Myers
On Fri, 4 Jul 2014 06:19:19 -0400 "Rodney D. Myers" wrote: > > > > reboot and see if everything works fine... Been up and running all day, and rebooted to see if it would mount, as suggested. It did Many thanks for the help , and guidance -- Rodney D. Myers They that can give up essential

Re: raid/mdadm help -- Part duex

2014-07-04 Thread Rodney D. Myers
On Mon, 23 Jun 2014 18:22:02 +0200 François Patte wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Le 23/06/2014 17:22, Rodney D. Myers a écrit : > > which should be still similar in Debian 7. If you are new to RAID, > > > So what HTH you says is the good way: create one partition

Re: raid/mdadm help

2014-06-26 Thread Don Armstrong
On Wed, 25 Jun 2014, Rodney D. Myers wrote: > Well 2 hours later, failed; Please examine dmesg, and see precisely what the failure messages were. [The entries in dmesg corresponding to the drives being detected at early boot will aul.] Secondly, please show us the output of: mdadm --detail /dev/

Re: raid/mdadm help

2014-06-25 Thread Bzzzz
On Wed, 25 Jun 2014 20:10:02 -0400 "Rodney D. Myers" wrote: > those 2 hard drives are new, which is the annoying part Yeah, but brand new HDz with problems exists :( As Pascal told you, check anything in /var/log/messages that could be connected to your problem; also check that all electrical/

Re: raid/mdadm help

2014-06-25 Thread Rodney D. Myers
On Thu, 26 Jun 2014 00:00:31 +0200 B wrote: > You can stop right now 'cos 2 of your HDz have been kicked out > from your array (well, let's finish, it will at least tell you > if the remaining HD has a problem or not). > > Final diag: at least 2 of your HDz have unrecoverable > (RAID only?)

Re: raid/mdadm help

2014-06-25 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Rodney D. Myers a écrit : > > Did the above, 1.5 hours ago, was working diligently until a few > moments ago. > > now this is what I see; > > /sbin/mdadm --detail /dev/md0 > /dev/md0: > Version : 1.2 > Creation Time : Wed Jun 25 16:03:44 2014 > Raid Level : raid1 > Array Size

Re: raid/mdadm help

2014-06-25 Thread Bzzzz
On Wed, 25 Jun 2014 17:43:41 -0400 "Rodney D. Myers" wrote: > > # mdadm --create /dev/md0 --level=1 --raid-devices=2 \ > > /dev/sdX1 /dev/sdY1 This is boring: nobody's prying over your shoulder trying to hack your system, so why hiding devices real nam

Re: raid/mdadm help

2014-06-25 Thread Rodney D. Myers
On Mon, 23 Jun 2014 18:22:02 +0200 François Patte wrote: > Le 23/06/2014 17:22, Rodney D. Myers a écrit : > > which should be still similar in Debian 7. If you are new to RAID, > > > So what HTH you says is the good way: create one partitions on each of > your storages devices (say sdX1 and sd

Re: raid/mdadm help

2014-06-25 Thread Rodney D. Myers
On Wed, 25 Jun 2014 06:43:01 -0400 "Rodney D. Myers" wrote: > I've made sure the 500G drive is the first in the external box. And > excluded it in the array. > > I've started creating a new array using the following; > > /sbin/mdadm --create --verbose /dev/md0 --level=5 > --raid-devices=3 /dev

Re: raid/mdadm help

2014-06-25 Thread Rodney D. Myers
I've made sure the 500G drive is the first in the external box. And excluded it in the array. I've started creating a new array using the following; /sbin/mdadm --create --verbose /dev/md0 --level=5 --raid-devices=3 /dev/sdc1 /dev/sdd1 /dev/sde1 mdadm: layout defaults to left-symmetric mdadm: la

Re: raid/mdadm help

2014-06-25 Thread Rodney D. Myers
On Tue, 24 Jun 2014 17:47:18 -0600 Bob Proulx wrote: > Rodney D. Myers wrote: > > it's been 3 hours since I attempted to create the raid array, and > > it's stopped. This is what I see; > > > > /sbin/mdadm --detail /dev/md0 > > That was good information. Additionally can you post the mdstat

Re: raid/mdadm help

2014-06-25 Thread Darac Marjal
On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 04:22:24AM +0200, B wrote: > On Tue, 24 Jun 2014 22:03:54 -0400 > "Rodney D. Myers" wrote: > > > Yes, see reply from Francois Patte > > Then kick off the 500GB HD and stay with 3 HDz; of course, > you won't have no spare, but in this case it's almost > useless (if yo

Re: raid/mdadm help

2014-06-24 Thread Bzzzz
On Tue, 24 Jun 2014 22:03:54 -0400 "Rodney D. Myers" wrote: > Yes, see reply from Francois Patte Then kick off the 500GB HD and stay with 3 HDz; of course, you won't have no spare, but in this case it's almost useless (if you plan to stock a lot of data). Also, depending on what you plan to us

Re: raid/mdadm help

2014-06-24 Thread Rodney D. Myers
On Tue, 24 Jun 2014 17:47:18 -0600 Bob Proulx wrote: > Rodney D. Myers wrote: > > it's been 3 hours since I attempted to create the raid array, and > > it's stopped. This is what I see; > > > > /sbin/mdadm --detail /dev/md0 > > That was good information. Additionally can you post the mdstat

Re: raid/mdadm help

2014-06-24 Thread Rodney D. Myers
On Wed, 25 Jun 2014 02:00:48 +0200 B wrote: > On Tue, 24 Jun 2014 19:24:45 -0400 > "Rodney D. Myers" wrote: > > > Array Size : 1464763392 (1396.91 GiB 1499.92 GB) > > Used Dev Size : 488254464 (465.64 GiB 499.97 GB) > > One question: why are there 3 HDz with a 1.3TB partition > wh

Re: raid/mdadm help

2014-06-24 Thread Bzzzz
On Tue, 24 Jun 2014 19:24:45 -0400 "Rodney D. Myers" wrote: > Array Size : 1464763392 (1396.91 GiB 1499.92 GB) > Used Dev Size : 488254464 (465.64 GiB 499.97 GB) One question: why are there 3 HDz with a 1.3TB partition when the 4th only has 465GB? (which is not logical, as the RAID array

Re: raid/mdadm help

2014-06-24 Thread Bob Proulx
Rodney D. Myers wrote: > it's been 3 hours since I attempted to create the raid array, and it's > stopped. This is what I see; > > /sbin/mdadm --detail /dev/md0 That was good information. Additionally can you post the mdstat output? It would be useful before rendering an opinion. cat /proc/m

Re: raid/mdadm help

2014-06-24 Thread Rodney D. Myers
On Tue, 24 Jun 2014 19:38:27 +0200 François Patte wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Le 24/06/2014 18:43, Rodney D. Myers a écrit : > > > I suggest: use fdisk to create a partition on your 500Gb disk and save > it as fd type (raid autodetect), then dupplicate this par

Re: raid/mdadm help

2014-06-24 Thread Rodney D. Myers
On Tue, 24 Jun 2014 19:38:27 +0200 François Patte wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Le 24/06/2014 18:43, Rodney D. Myers a écrit : > > > I suggest: use fdisk to create a partition on your 500Gb disk and save > it as fd type (raid autodetect), then dupplicate this par

Re: raid/mdadm help

2014-06-24 Thread François Patte
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Le 24/06/2014 18:43, Rodney D. Myers a écrit : I suggest: use fdisk to create a partition on your 500Gb disk and save it as fd type (raid autodetect), then dupplicate this partition on your other disks like this: sfdisk -d /dev/sdb | sfdisk /dev/sdc

Re: raid/mdadm help

2014-06-24 Thread Rodney D. Myers
On Tue, 24 Jun 2014 14:27:53 +0200 François Patte wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Le 24/06/2014 12:12, Rodney D. Myers a écrit : > > On Tue, 24 Jun 2014 09:45:06 +0200 François Patte > > wrote: > > > >> How did you create your partitions on these disks? > > You di

Re: raid/mdadm help

2014-06-24 Thread François Patte
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Le 24/06/2014 12:12, Rodney D. Myers a écrit : > On Tue, 24 Jun 2014 09:45:06 +0200 François Patte > wrote: > >> How did you create your partitions on these disks? You did not answer this question... >> >> Every partition should have the same size

Re: raid/mdadm help

2014-06-24 Thread Rodney D. Myers
On Tue, 24 Jun 2014 09:45:06 +0200 François Patte wrote: > How did you create your partitions on these disks? > > Every partition should have the same size if you want to put them in > an array. ah, I have 3 x 1gig hard drives, and 1 x .5 gig hard drive -- Rodney D. Myers They that can give

Re: raid/mdadm help

2014-06-24 Thread François Patte
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Le 24/06/2014 03:00, Rodney D. Myers a écrit : > On Mon, 23 Jun 2014 13:05:08 -0600 Bob Proulx > wrote: > >> Rodney D. Myers wrote: >>> Linux-Fan wrote: Rodney D. Myers wrote: > Is there a debian specific mail list or online forum to get >>>

Re: raid/mdadm help

2014-06-23 Thread Rodney D. Myers
On Mon, 23 Jun 2014 13:05:08 -0600 Bob Proulx wrote: > Rodney D. Myers wrote: > > Linux-Fan wrote: > > > Rodney D. Myers wrote: > > > > Is there a debian specific mail list or online forum to get some > > > > help for a newbie setting up a raid storage device? > > > > > > > > I can find plen

Re: raid/mdadm help

2014-06-23 Thread Bob Proulx
Rodney D. Myers wrote: > Linux-Fan wrote: > > Rodney D. Myers wrote: > > > Is there a debian specific mail list or online forum to get some > > > help for a newbie setting up a raid storage device? > > > > > > I can find plenty of tips to get started, but things are not doing > > > the exact thing

Re: raid/mdadm help

2014-06-23 Thread Pascal Hambourg
François Patte a écrit : > > # blkid /dev/md0 > > /dev/md0: UUID="41Js9Q-0WaZ-JGYR-r88a-FiqA-XS5F-0XWNOy" (of course the > uuid will be different for you) > > 2- add this in /etc/fstab: > > UUID=41Js9Q-0WaZ-JGYR-r88a-FiqA-XS5F-0XWNOy /storage-raid ext4 rw 0 0 Unlike disks and their partitions,

Re: raid/mdadm help

2014-06-23 Thread François Patte
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Le 23/06/2014 17:22, Rodney D. Myers a écrit : which should be still similar in Debian 7. If you are new to RAID, So what HTH you says is the good way: create one partitions on each of your storages devices (say sdX1 and sdY1) then use the given com

Re: raid/mdadm help

2014-06-23 Thread Rodney D. Myers
On Mon, 23 Jun 2014 16:08:15 +0200 Linux-Fan wrote: > On 06/23/2014 03:40 PM, Rodney D. Myers wrote: > > Is there a debian specific mail list or online forum to get some > > help for a newbie setting up a raid storage device? > > > > I can find plenty of tips to get started, but things are not d

Re: raid/mdadm help

2014-06-23 Thread Linux-Fan
On 06/23/2014 03:40 PM, Rodney D. Myers wrote: > Is there a debian specific mail list or online forum to get some help > for a newbie setting up a raid storage device? > > I can find plenty of tips to get started, but things are not doing the > exact thing(s) the online guides are showing. > > th

raid/mdadm help

2014-06-23 Thread Rodney D. Myers
Is there a debian specific mail list or online forum to get some help for a newbie setting up a raid storage device? I can find plenty of tips to get started, but things are not doing the exact thing(s) the online guides are showing. thank you -- Rodney D. Myers They that can give up essentia