You can change the partition type at any time without stopping the array --
you won't lose any data either.
It's only used for partition management (i.e. fdisk, auto-RAID, etc).
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From: "root" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "David Cooley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Monday, March 27, 2000 1:57 PM
Subject: Re: superblock or the partition table is corrupt?
Thanks,
so I should be able to do the following without loss to date right?
1. umount /dev/md0
2. raidstop /dev/md0
3. change partition types on /dev/sda5 and /dev/sdb5 to fd (was linux)
4. raidstart /dev/md0
5 mount -t ext2 /dev/md0 /mirrored_databases
My /etc/raidtab:
# persistent RAID1 array with no spare disk.
raiddev /dev/md0
nr-raid-disks 2
nr-spare-disks 0
persistent-superblock 1
chunk-size 4
device /dev/sda5
raid-disk 0
device /dev/sdb5
raid-disk 1
One last note: I'm running this machine as a backend database
for a busy website, is the chunksize too small?
Everything seems to be running ok. If it ain't broke?
/proc/mdstat:
Personalities : [raid1]
read_ahead 1024 sectors
md0 : active raid1 sdb5[1] sda5[0] 1999936 blocks [2/2] [UU]
unused devices: <none>
On Mon, 27 Mar 2000, David Cooley wrote:
> If you needed to run mke2fs, you wouldn't be able to access the raid as a
> file system right now... That is the equivalent of a DOS format.
> Option FD doesn't show in the list on fdisk... you just have to select
type
> then enter fd and return.
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