On Sun, 2017-12-03 at 13:32 +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > On 12/03/2017 01:22 PM, Frans van Berckel wrote:
> > I am creating raid partitions. First only sdd1, wanna add sdc1 > > later on. But creating sdd1 does serious wrong partition changes. > > Because it drops the partition tabel. And creates a new one. > > So it has created the raid on sdd, instead of sdd1. And even > > more serious, it drops my swap, and the Sun's sdd3 partition. > > I don't have any of these issues but I also don't understand your > strange RAID setup. We have setup mdraid on three of the sparc64 > machines we have and I never saw any issues. I have created this md0 while setup as well. That goes on and boots. But what's the better way of adding more raid partitions to a running server? Is there a Debian specific, and anywhere documented? > I also think it's extremely unlikely that the mdraid code has such > fundamental issues. This is widely used code which doesn't see too > many changes often. I am aware of, so lets us see, your methode helps preventing this. Thanks, Frans van Berckel
