Hello again, Rich (and everybody else who answered me).
On Tue, Feb 03, 2015 at 08:36:27AM -0500, Rich Freeman wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 8:14 AM, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
> > So, what was it that chewed up my RAID configuration so badly that
> > /dev/md6 got renamed to /dev/md127? Can I chang
On 03/02/15 13:14, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
> In fact, do I really need an installation CD for a new installation?
> Would I perhaps be better creating new partions then downloading a stage
> 3 from my working system?
>
not at all. you can indeed just create a new LV called "newroot" or
something mor
Of course, there might be other causes, but if it just happened
randomly I suspect the above is the most likely.
I came across this too. The misnamed device is still perfectly usable.
If you boot from something with an unconfigured or misconfigured
initramfs (such as the install CD?) and need to chroot into a system,
deactivating the array and reassembling it, even using --scan, should
name it properly.
Conf
On Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 9:37 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> I don't use UUIDs (nor kernel-assigned network device names), preferring
> to use names I can read. To each his own, of course.
>
That's what labels are for, though obviously there is more risk of
collision. :) Still needs an initramfs to
On Tuesday 03 February 2015 08:53:13 Todd Goodman wrote:
> I also had the same problem a while ago and like Rich I started using
> UUIDs (actually I had started on another system where it mounted my
> /home partition as /tmp and rm -rf'd it during startup because of the
> /dev/md devices being scr
* Rich Freeman [150203 08:36]:
> On Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 8:14 AM, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
> > So, what was it that chewed up my RAID configuration so badly that
> > /dev/md6 got renamed to /dev/md127? Can I change it back to /dev/md6,
> > somehow? Do I need to bother?
>
> I ran into similar issue
On Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 8:14 AM, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
> So, what was it that chewed up my RAID configuration so badly that
> /dev/md6 got renamed to /dev/md127? Can I change it back to /dev/md6,
> somehow? Do I need to bother?
I ran into similar issues a while back. In my case some of my array
Hi, Gentoo!
I've been in the wars.
It's so long since I've updated my system, many months, mainly because I
got totally confused with changes to portage, and the mess that resulted
from gnome 3 becoming stabilised, and hence my XFCE support being
drastically undermined. However, it's still a wor
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