From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1QAPRo-0003fK-T1 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 14 Apr 2011 16:31:13 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 716A41C038; Thu, 14 Apr 2011 16:29:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 39DBD1C038 for ; Thu, 14 Apr 2011 16:29:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A06371B4039 for ; Thu, 14 Apr 2011 16:29:43 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new using ClamAV at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -2.54 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.54 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=0.059, BAYES_00=-2.599] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id qOVe93TNn9r9 for ; Thu, 14 Apr 2011 16:29:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F3C464210 for ; Thu, 14 Apr 2011 16:29:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QAPQD-0001vf-Hx for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Thu, 14 Apr 2011 18:29:33 +0200 Received: from rrcs-71-40-157-251.se.biz.rr.com ([71.40.157.251]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 14 Apr 2011 18:29:33 +0200 Received: from wireless by rrcs-71-40-157-251.se.biz.rr.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 14 Apr 2011 18:29:33 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: James Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: raid1 grub ext4 Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2011 16:29:22 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <20110411214915.3f88106a@digimed.co.uk> <20110412101132.0ee9c8e8@zaphod.digimed.co.uk> <4DA570EB.2060904@binarywings.net> <4DA7008F.5030303@binarywings.net> <4DA71837.9030000@binarywings.net> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: sea.gmane.org User-Agent: Loom/3.14 (http://gmane.org/) X-Loom-IP: 71.40.157.251 (Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.17) Gecko/20110305 Gentoo/2.0.12 SeaMonkey/2.0.12) X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 5615a0348fac35a27b0a990412e21d4a Florian Philipp binarywings.net> writes: > Are you sure sda1 and sdb1 are not in use? Did the kernel activate the > already present RAID? Then you have to deactivate it. Use > mdadm --stop /dev/md* AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHh! livecd ~ # mdadm --stop /dev/md* mdadm: error opening /dev/md: Is a directory mdadm: stopped /dev/md1 mdadm: stopped /dev/md125 mdadm: stopped /dev/md126 mdadm: stopped /dev/md127 mdadm: stopped /dev/md3 mdadm: stopped /dev/md4 So it has 2 sets of md ? mdadm --create /dev/md127 --level=1 --raid-devices=2 --metadata=0.90 /dev/sda1 /dev/sdb1 mdadm: /dev/sda1 appears to be part of a raid array: level=raid1 devices=2 ctime=Sun Apr 10 17:12:42 2011 mdadm: /dev/sdb1 appears to be part of a raid array: level=raid1 devices=2 ctime=Sun Apr 10 17:12:42 2011 Continue creating array? y mdadm: array /dev/md127 started. What next? James