From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1EUSGV-0005n5-Bg for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 25 Oct 2005 17:07:11 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id j9PH6DkM001181; Tue, 25 Oct 2005 17:06:13 GMT Received: from mail12.bluewin.ch (mail12.bluewin.ch [195.186.19.61]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id j9PH2KBq026018 for ; Tue, 25 Oct 2005 17:02:21 GMT Received: from vangelis (62.203.232.100) by mail12.bluewin.ch (Bluewin 7.2.068.1) id 435DFCE20001FB0D for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Tue, 25 Oct 2005 17:02:20 +0000 Received: from queen.dmj.nu (queen.dmj.nu [192.168.1.11]) by vangelis with esmtp; Tue, 25 Oct 2005 19:02:19 +0200 From: Dan Johansson To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Moving system from "single-disk" to RAID-1 configuration Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2005 19:02:08 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.1 References: <200510231553.37011.Dan.Johansson@dmj.nu> <200510250701.38745.ti.liame@email.it> <200510251127.59778.mike@gaima.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <200510251127.59778.mike@gaima.co.uk> X-message-flag: Using Microsoft software might be a security risk Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart7350666.VXuAuGfKKb"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200510251902.18261.Dan.Johansson@dmj.nu> X-Archives-Salt: 0bec5042-3f11-4eb7-9e23-06b0ffcc0474 X-Archives-Hash: 3953ac4b95d487ffe7f487a8c2686324 --nextPart7350666.VXuAuGfKKb Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-6" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Tuesday 25 October 2005 12.27, Mike Williams wrote: > On Tuesday 25 October 2005 06:01, Francesco Talamona wrote: > > > DEVICE partitions > > > ARRAY /dev/md0 uuid=3D8ef83d67:79b230ba:6cc967c3:208b9224 > > > > AFAIK fd partition type is mandatory. Anyway is good to know that I can > > avoid explicit node names in config files. > > I'm not sure it's mandatory, but there really is no reason not to do so. > > > > I have a SATA card that doesn't have in kernel drivers, so I have to > > > load a module, which naturally means the kernel can't autostart all > > > my arrays, but mdadm can without me having to tell it any device > > > nodes. > > > > How can you prevent it to start in degraded mode? > > I don't have the raid drivers compiled into the kernel :) > I have 3 arrays, 2 of which have more devices on the SATA card than the > array can loose. mdadm would warn me by email if it detected any array in > degraded mode anyway. > > I'm not sure what problem you had that meant you could only create a > degraded array. But if you boot from a gentoo livecd you can create a > mirror from an existing disk *without* losing any data, or needing to > backup. If you specify the disk/partition with the data on it you want to > keep *first* to mdadm, that data will get replicated to the others. Thanks for your input. Just one Question about setting the partition type t= o=20 'FD' - should I do this for all Partitions or ? Today I have the following Partitions defined Partition Type FS /dev/hde1 83 /boot /dev/hde2 82 (SWAP) /dev/hde3 83 / /dev/hde4 8E (LVM) Regards, =2D-=20 Dan Johansson, *************************************************** This message is printed on 100% recycled electrons! *************************************************** --nextPart7350666.VXuAuGfKKb Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBDXmUaF+s3Ki+4lK0RAsmmAJ44g3WaOn/k7q67K7sv53c9AxL0AgCdGZ8l 3cALMaAuGTUqa5yCbvVueXw= =L+8p -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart7350666.VXuAuGfKKb-- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list