[PLUG] /dev/md0 not writing to mount point

2022-02-10 Thread Rich Shepard
short version is this: /dev/md0 is supposed to be mounted on /mnt/backup by /etc/fstab and seen in lsblk: NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT md09:00 1.8T 0 raid1 /mnt/backup md09:00 1.8T 0 raid1 /mnt/backup sda8:00 232.9G 0 disk sda1 8:10 100M 0

Re: [PLUG] Remove raid1 (/dev/md0) and its disks

2022-02-10 Thread Russell Senior
You didn't actually show any of the steps. My first suggestion is to use your favorite web search service to inquire how to remove an mdadm RAID1 array with a query like: "remove mdadm array". On Thu, Feb 10, 2022, 11:16 Rich Shepard wrote: > I tried following steps to remove a RAID array.

Re: [PLUG] Remove raid1 (/dev/md0) and its disks

2022-02-10 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 10 Feb 2022, Russell Senior wrote: You didn't actually show any of the steps. My first suggestion is to use your favorite web search service to inquire how to remove an mdadm RAID1 array with a query like: "remove mdadm array". Russell, I followed all the steps from

Re: [PLUG] Remove raid1 (/dev/md0) and its disks [DONE]

2022-02-10 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 10 Feb 2022, Rich Shepard wrote: A clue is needed so I can rebuild the RAID1 and rebuild my backup bank. I turned off the Probox, waited a bit, turned it back on. Then rebooted the desktop. Once again the four drives in the Probox are /dev/sd{c,d,e,f} so I can now rebuild the RAID1 on

[PLUG] Remove raid1 (/dev/md0) and its disks

2022-02-10 Thread Rich Shepard
I tried following steps to remove a RAID array. While /dev/md0 was removed the two disks comprising the array still show them attached to it: NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT sdf 8:80 0 1.8T 0 disk └─md09:00 1.8T 0 raid1 sdd 8:48 0 1.8T 0 disk

Re: [PLUG] Remove raid1 (/dev/md0) and its disks [DONE]

2022-02-10 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 10 Feb 2022, Bill Barry wrote: I don't know how far into setting this up, but you might want to consider a ZFS mirror instead of the mdadm raid1. Bill, The 'create' function's been running about 2 hours so far. Now that I've dug deep into mdadm (having to redo the array several times

Re: [PLUG] Remove raid1 (/dev/md0) and its disks [DONE]

2022-02-10 Thread Tomas Kuchta
On Thu, Feb 10, 2022, 18:55 Rich Shepard wrote: > On Thu, 10 Feb 2022, Bill Barry wrote: > > > I don't know how far into setting this up, but you might want to > > consider a ZFS mirror instead of the mdadm raid1. > > Bill, > > The 'create' function's been running about 2 hours so far. Now that

Re: [PLUG] Remove raid1 (/dev/md0) and its disks [DONE]

2022-02-10 Thread Bill Barry
On Thu, Feb 10, 2022 at 4:18 PM Rich Shepard wrote: > > On Thu, 10 Feb 2022, Rich Shepard wrote: > > > A clue is needed so I can rebuild the RAID1 and rebuild my backup bank. > > I turned off the Probox, waited a bit, turned it back on. Then rebooted the > desktop. Once again the four drives in

[PLUG] VirtualBox Problems

2022-02-10 Thread John Jason Jordan
I have had VirtualBox on my Lenovo laptop and its predecessors for many years, and it always just works. Now that I have a new computer I decided to install it there also, and copy the VDI file for Windows 10 over there also (I have multiple licenses). In the past this always worked when I needed

Re: [PLUG] Remove raid1 (/dev/md0) and its disks [DONE]

2022-02-10 Thread Galen Seitz
On 2/10/22 16:44, Tomas Kuchta wrote: On Thu, Feb 10, 2022, 18:55 Rich Shepard wrote: On Thu, 10 Feb 2022, Bill Barry wrote: I don't know how far into setting this up, but you might want to consider a ZFS mirror instead of the mdadm raid1. Bill, The 'create' function's been running about