On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 9:09 PM, Justin Piszcz <jpis...@lucidpixels.com>wrote:
> > > On Fri, 27 Nov 2009, Yuriy Kuznetsov wrote: > > Hi Justin, >> >> On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 12:38 AM, Justin Piszcz <jpis...@lucidpixels.com >> >wrote: >> >> >>> You can also boot a Linux Live CD (or system rescue CD) or knoppix and >>> fdisk -l - make sure you have a bootable partition and its the same one >>> on >>> each of the raid-1 disk members. >>> >>> Justin. >>> >>> >> Now when I go with rescue CD and do fdisk -l it's showing me RAIDs like a >> single drive, ie /dev/sda for RAID1 and /dev/sdb for RAID5. >> This is my first time experience with RAID but my impression is that as >> soon >> as you gathered disks under RAIDs they would show up as single units in >> /dev. >> >> Correct me if I'm wrong, please. >> >> > Hi, > > Disk /dev/sdb: 150.0 GB, 149989359616 bytes > 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 18235 cylinders > > Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes > Disk identifier: 0xa49f8981 > > > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System > /dev/sdb1 1 2090 16787893+ 82 Linux swap / > Solaris > /dev/sdb2 * 2091 18235 129684712+ 83 Linux > > Does the partition containing /boot on your system have a '*' next to it as > I show above (for /dev/sda)? > > Justin. > > Hi Justin, What does '*' mean? Thanks, yuriy
