Re: debian-installer RAID question

2021-09-18 Thread Felix Natter
Many Thanks for the very helpful reply, Reco! -- Felix Natter debian/rules!

Re: debian-installer RAID question

2021-09-18 Thread Felix Natter
Thanks Sven! -- Felix Natter debian/rules!

Re: debian-installer RAID question

2021-09-18 Thread Felix Natter
Many Thanks for the very helpful reply Andy! -- Felix Natter debian/rules!

Re: debian-installer RAID question

2021-09-18 Thread Felix Natter
Darac Marjal writes: > On 11/09/2021 17:55, Felix Natter wrote: >> hello fellow Debian users, >> >> I have an SSD for the root filesystem, and two HDDs using RAID1 for >> /storage running Debian10. Now I need a plan B in case the upgrade >> fails. > > Just want to check that you've not missed som

Re: debian-installer RAID question

2021-09-18 Thread Felix Natter
hi Andrei, Andrei POPESCU writes: thank you for your answer. > On Sb, 11 sep 21, 18:55:56, Felix Natter wrote: >> hello fellow Debian users, >> >> I have an SSD for the root filesystem, and two HDDs using RAID1 for >> /storage running Debian10. Now I need a plan B in case the upgrade >> fails.

Re: debian-installer RAID question

2021-09-12 Thread Darac Marjal
On 11/09/2021 17:55, Felix Natter wrote: > hello fellow Debian users, > > I have an SSD for the root filesystem, and two HDDs using RAID1 for > /storage running Debian10. Now I need a plan B in case the upgrade > fails. Just want to check that you've not missed something obvious here. You don't *

Re: debian-installer RAID question

2021-09-12 Thread David Christensen
On 9/11/21 9:55 AM, Felix Natter wrote: hello fellow Debian users, I have an SSD for the root filesystem, and two HDDs using RAID1 for /storage running Debian10. Now I need a plan B in case the upgrade fails. So I made an experiment with a VM and rougly the same setup (disk-wise), and found out

Re: debian-installer RAID question

2021-09-12 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 11 sep 21, 18:55:56, Felix Natter wrote: > hello fellow Debian users, > > I have an SSD for the root filesystem, and two HDDs using RAID1 for > /storage running Debian10. Now I need a plan B in case the upgrade > fails. > > So I made an experiment with a VM and rougly the same setup (disk-

Re: debian-installer RAID question

2021-09-11 Thread Sven Hartge
Felix Natter wrote: > My question is: How does d-i know how the individual HDDs were combined > into a RAID1? For all that "sudo fdisk -l" shows, the disks are > "Linux raid autodetect". For all I see, it could be a RAIDX, X!=1 or > two different RAIDs Are there RAID headers on the partition

Re: debian-installer RAID question

2021-09-11 Thread Reco
Hi. On Sat, Sep 11, 2021 at 06:55:56PM +0200, Felix Natter wrote: > My question is: How does d-i know how the individual HDDs were combined > into a RAID1? mdraid stores its metadata on each drive that belongs to the RAID. Whenever it's the beginning of the drive, or the end of it - depen

Re: debian-installer RAID question

2021-09-11 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Sat, Sep 11, 2021 at 06:55:56PM +0200, Felix Natter wrote: > How does d-i know how the individual HDDs were combined into a > RAID1? d-i doesn't as such. In Linux MD, member devices contain metadata to allow assembly by udev. You can examine the data on an MD member device like this: $

debian-installer RAID question

2021-09-11 Thread Felix Natter
hello fellow Debian users, I have an SSD for the root filesystem, and two HDDs using RAID1 for /storage running Debian10. Now I need a plan B in case the upgrade fails. So I made an experiment with a VM and rougly the same setup (disk-wise), and found out that when reinstalling Debian11, the d-i