Hello, Well it's been almost a year since I tried to set up a simple raid1 workstation. (I.E. 2 identical drives, boo/root/swap only with Raid 1). So I'm starting over.
I found this link: http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/RAID/Software Is this the best document to follow? (note, I'm going to try to avoid using LVM: fdisk -l Disk /dev/sda: 2000.4 GB, 2000398934016 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 243201 cylinders, total 3907029168 sectors Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk identifier: 0xab83344a Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 2048 526335 262144 fd Linux raid autodetect /dev/sda2 526336 10573823 5023744 fd Linux raid autodetect /dev/sda3 10573824 3907029167 1948227672 fd Linux raid autodetect Disk /dev/sdb: 2000.4 GB, 2000398934016 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 243201 cylinders, total 3907029168 sectors Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk identifier: 0xab83344a Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdb1 * 2048 526335 262144 fd Linux raid autodetect /dev/sdb2 526336 10573823 5023744 fd Linux raid autodetect /dev/sdb3 10573824 3907029167 1948227672 fd Linux raid autodetect Disk /dev/md127: 268 MB, 268369920 bytes 2 heads, 4 sectors/track, 65520 cylinders, total 524160 sectors Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk identifier: 0x00000000 Disk /dev/md127 doesn't contain a valid partition table <snip many more /dev/md### partitions. So the drives are setup identical, and are identical 2T seagate drivers. The md### partitions are all screwed up. So I think I should just nuke all the data and start over, just keeping the formatting. (parted) print Model: ATA ST32000542AS (scsi) Disk /dev/sda: 2000GB Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B Partition Table: msdos Number Start End Size Type File system Flags 1 1049kB 269MB 268MB primary boot, raid 2 269MB 5414MB 5144MB primary raid 3 5414MB 2000GB 1995GB primary raid (parted) print Model: ATA ST32000542AS (scsi) Disk /dev/sdb: 2000GB Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B Partition Table: msdos Number Start End Size Type File system Flags 1 1049kB 269MB 268MB primary boot, raid 2 269MB 5414MB 5144MB primary raid 3 5414MB 2000GB 1995GB primary raid parted shows the drives as set up fine (???), I just need to erase each partition from here? Suggestions? James
