Hello to you all.
I would realy appreciate it if somebody with the appropiate knowledge would
take a look at my problem.
I have a raid enabled kernel, raid is initialised at boot time, the utils
are there etc. raid is not configured/setup. I want a RAID-1 instalation.
My linux is installed at /dev/hda
Command (m for help): p
Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 1650 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 3 24066 83 Linux
/dev/hda2 4 1650 13229527+ 5 Extended
/dev/hda5 4 743 5944018+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda6 744 1483 5944018+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda7 1484 1516 265041 83 Linux
/dev/hda8 1517 1549 265041 83 Linux
/dev/hda9 1550 1650 811251 82 Linux swap
from dmesg:
Partition check:
hda: hda1 hda2 < hda5 hda6 hda7 hda8 hda9 >
hdc:
hdd: unknown partition table
autodetecting RAID arrays
autorun ...
... autorun DONE.
mount
/dev/hda8 on / type ext2 (rw)
none on /proc type proc (rw)
/dev/hda1 on /boot type ext2 (rw)
/dev/hda6 on /home type ext2 (rw)
/dev/hda5 on /usr type ext2 (rw)
/dev/hda7 on /var type ext2 (rw)
Now how do reproduce this on my /dev/hdb?
I am hopeless with fdisk I think...
Also: from QuickStart.RAID
c) run:
$ mkraid /etc/raid1.conf
This creates the RAID-1 superblocks and *ERASES* both paritions.
Might take a long time for big arrays.
Be careful, this will *wipe* all the information on your composing
devices.
This is pretty scary! Can this be solved bij copying the (already used!)
mountpoints to a third disk and fiddling a littlebit the /etc/fstab, and
placing them back after the succesfull initalisation from raid?
Thanx for your attention.
Tabe
