Ok. spent my Friday night doing accounting and as a diversion (read as often as possible) I jumped into this RAID recovery issue. I built up a standard box with two ide hdd. Installed e-smith in RAID1 mode and began my adventure. It is now just after midnight and I think I actually have this figured out. My RAID array just finished rebuilding itself :) Dan's HowTo is 100% correct. Yes the replacement drive does have to be prepared. Partitioning the drive is required. My only comment is the typical e-smith admin who may never have seen fdisk before will most likely fail here. With this in mind I've found an awesome shortcut. No fdisk necessary ;-> Some time over the weekend I'll get this all documented into a combined RAID1 Monitoring and Recovery HowTo. For those interested in learning fdisk, this is what was required to prepare my replacement drive. When you see the shortcut to all this you'll jump for joy. Regards, -- Darrell May DMC NETSOURCED.COM http://netsourced.com ---START--- [root@myezserver /sbin]# fdisk /dev/hdb Device contains neither a valid DOS partition table, nor Sun, SGI or OSF disklabel Building a new DOS disklabel. Changes will remain in memory only, until you decide to write them. After that, of course, the previous content won't be recoverable. The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 2491. There is nothing wrong with that, but this is larger than 1024, and could in certain setups cause problems with: 1) software that runs at boot time (e.g., old versions of LILO) 2) booting and partitioning software from other OSs (e.g., DOS FDISK, OS/2 FDISK) Command (m for help): m Command action a toggle a bootable flag b edit bsd disklabel c toggle the dos compatibility flag d delete a partition l list known partition types m print this menu n add a new partition o create a new empty DOS partition table p print the partition table q quit without saving changes s create a new empty Sun disklabel t change a partition's system id u change display/entry units v verify the partition table w write table to disk and exit x extra functionality (experts only) Command (m for help): n Command action e extended p primary partition (1-4) p Partition number (1-4): 1 First cylinder (1-2491, default 1): 1 Last cylinder or +size or +sizeM or +sizeK (1-2491, default 2491): 33 Command (m for help): p Disk /dev/hdb: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 2491 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hdb1 1 33 265041 83 Linux Command (m for help): n Command action e extended p primary partition (1-4) e Partition number (1-4): 2 First cylinder (34-2491, default 34): Using default value 34 Last cylinder or +size or +sizeM or +sizeK (34-2491, default 2491): Using default value 2491 Command (m for help): p Disk /dev/hdb: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 2491 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hdb1 1 33 265041 83 Linux /dev/hdb2 34 2491 19743885 5 Extended Command (m for help): n Command action l logical (5 or over) p primary partition (1-4) l First cylinder (34-2491, default 34): Using default value 34 Last cylinder or +size or +sizeM or +sizeK (34-2491, default 2491): 35 Command (m for help): p Disk /dev/hdb: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 2491 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hdb1 1 33 265041 83 Linux /dev/hdb2 34 2491 19743885 5 Extended /dev/hdb5 34 35 16033+ 83 Linux Command (m for help): n Command action l logical (5 or over) p primary partition (1-4) l First cylinder (36-2491, default 36): Using default value 36 Last cylinder or +size or +sizeM or +sizeK (36-2491, default 2491): Using default value 2491 Command (m for help): p Disk /dev/hdb: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 2491 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hdb1 1 33 265041 83 Linux /dev/hdb2 34 2491 19743885 5 Extended /dev/hdb5 34 35 16033+ 83 Linux /dev/hdb6 36 2491 19727788+ 83 Linux Command (m for help): t Partition number (1-6): 1 Hex code (type L to list codes): l 0 Empty 17 Hidden HPFS/NTF 5c Priam Edisk a5 BSD/386 1 FAT12 18 AST Windows swa 61 SpeedStor a6 OpenBSD 2 XENIX root 1b Hidden Win95 FA 63 GNU HURD or Sys a7 NeXTSTEP 3 XENIX usr 1c Hidden Win95 FA 64 Novell Netware b7 BSDI fs 4 FAT16 <32M 1e Hidden Win95 FA 65 Novell Netware b8 BSDI swap 5 Extended 24 NEC DOS 70 DiskSecure Mult c1 DRDOS/sec (FAT- 6 FAT16 3c PartitionMagic 75 PC/IX c4 DRDOS/sec (FAT- 7 HPFS/NTFS 40 Venix 80286 80 Old Minix c6 DRDOS/sec (FAT- 8 AIX 41 PPC PReP Boot 81 Minix / old Lin c7 Syrinx 9 AIX bootable 42 SFS 82 Linux swap db CP/M / CTOS / . a OS/2 Boot Manag 4d QNX4.x 83 Linux e1 DOS access b Win95 FAT32 4e QNX4.x 2nd part 84 OS/2 hidden C: e3 DOS R/O c Win95 FAT32 (LB 4f QNX4.x 3rd part 85 Linux extended e4 SpeedStor e Win95 FAT16 (LB 50 OnTrack DM 86 NTFS volume set eb BeOS fs f Win95 Ext'd (LB 51 OnTrack DM6 Aux 87 NTFS volume set f1 SpeedStor 10 OPUS 52 CP/M 8e Linux LVM f4 SpeedStor 11 Hidden FAT12 53 OnTrack DM6 Aux 93 Amoeba f2 DOS secondary 12 Compaq diagnost 54 OnTrackDM6 94 Amoeba BBT fd Linux raid auto 14 Hidden FAT16 <3 55 EZ-Drive 9f BSD/OS fe LANstep 16 Hidden FAT16 56 Golden Bow a0 IBM Thinkpad hi ff BBT Hex code (type L to list codes): fd Changed system type of partition 1 to fd (Linux raid autodetect) Command (m for help): p Disk /dev/hdb: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 2491 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hdb1 1 33 265041 fd Linux raid autodetect /dev/hdb2 34 2491 19743885 5 Extended /dev/hdb5 34 35 16033+ 83 Linux /dev/hdb6 36 2491 19727788+ 83 Linux Command (m for help): t Partition number (1-6): 5 Hex code (type L to list codes): fd Changed system type of partition 5 to fd (Linux raid autodetect) Command (m for help): t Partition number (1-6): 6 Hex code (type L to list codes): fd Changed system type of partition 6 to fd (Linux raid autodetect) Command (m for help): p Disk /dev/hdb: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 2491 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hdb1 1 33 265041 fd Linux raid autodetect /dev/hdb2 34 2491 19743885 5 Extended /dev/hdb5 34 35 16033+ fd Linux raid autodetect /dev/hdb6 36 2491 19727788+ fd Linux raid autodetect Command (m for help): a Partition number (1-6): 1 Command (m for help): p Disk /dev/hdb: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 2491 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hdb1 * 1 33 265041 fd Linux raid autodetect /dev/hdb2 34 2491 19743885 5 Extended /dev/hdb5 34 35 16033+ fd Linux raid autodetect /dev/hdb6 36 2491 19727788+ fd Linux raid autodetect Command (m for help): w The partition table has been altered! Calling ioctl() to re-read partition table. WARNING: If you have created or modified any DOS 6.x partitions, please see the fdisk manual page for additional information. ---END--- -- Please report bugs to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] (only) to discuss security issues Support for registered customers and partners to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives by mail and http://www.mail-archive.com/devinfo%40lists.e-smith.org
