On Tuesday 24 May 2005 19:01, Richard Fish wrote:
> Benjamin Sobotta wrote:
> >Hello!
> >
> >I set up a software RAID1 with two SATA disks. /home resides on the raid.
> > This used to work great for month. At boot the machine would test the
> > raid and start it. Great!
> >2 days ago however I put loop-AES on top of it in order to encrypt my home
> >directory. Since then it still finds the raid at startup, however, doesn't
> >start it anymore. (displays "skipping"). I always have to start by hand
> > via "raidstart /dev/md0". Then it works fine.
> >Can someone tell me why it stopped to start automatically - or even better
> > how to get it back to work?!
>
> Well, I am guessing that your setup is:
>
> /dev/sdaX+/dev/sdbX -> /dev/md0 -> /dev/loop/0 -> /home
>
> If so, then things should still work normally. Check that your
> partitions are still of type 0xfd (linux raid autodetect).
>
> If not, please describe how your system is setup is a bit more detail.
> Specifically:
>
> 1. The relevant output from dmesg.
> 2. The contents of /proc/mdstat
> 3. The output of "losetup -a"
>
> -Richard
Hello again!
Here is my raidtab:
raiddev /dev/md0
raid-level 1
nr-raid-disks 2
nr-spare-disks 0
persistent-superblock 1
chunk-size 32
device /dev/sdb
raid-disk 0
device /dev/sdc
raid-disk 1
I thought it might also be useful. But it should be fine, since I didn't touch
these settings lately.
Ben
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